A multimethod examination of negative behaviors during couples interactions and problem drinking trajectories.

ABSTRACT: Models of alcohol use disorder (AUD) are increasingly conceptualizing social and relationship factors as being critical to the understanding of problem drinking. Close relationships involving conflict have been a particular research focus, and partners' expressions of negative emotion are theorized to affect drinking among those with AUD. Although it has long been presumed that behaviors during couples interactions influence drinking-and this assumption has informed many modern treatments for AUD-this hypothesis has not been directly tested. We bring multiple methods to bear on this question, combining laboratory-based behavioral observation with a longitudinal design. Forty-eight individuals with AUD (probands), together with their partners, completed a laboratory-based conflict interacti

SUBMITTER: Fairbairn CE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4980209 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature