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- Title
Drinking to Cope Motivations as a Mediator of the Relationship Between Sexual Coercion Victimization and Alcohol Use Among College Women: The Role of Depressive Symptoms.
- Authors
Ehlke, Sarah J.; Kelley, Michelle L.
- Abstract
This cross-sectional study examined whether depressive symptoms strengthened the relationship between different forms of sexual coercion victimization and drinking to cope motivations, which was hypothesized to influence alcohol use. Participants were 214 female undergraduates who completed an online survey. Participants who experienced any lifetime sexual coercion and reported higher depressive symptoms were the most likely to report drinking to cope motivations, which in turn were associated with alcohol use. Depressive symptoms did not strengthen the relationship between specific forms of sexual coercion, drinking to cope, and alcohol use. Increasing emotion regulation strategies among sexual coercion victims may reduce drinking.
- Subjects
CONTROL (Psychology); ALCOHOLISM; STATISTICAL correlation; MENTAL depression; MOTIVATION (Psychology); QUESTIONNAIRES; SEX crimes; STATISTICS; SURVEYS; WORLD Wide Web; DATA analysis; UNDERGRADUATES; CROSS-sectional method; DATA analysis software; DESCRIPTIVE statistics
- Publication
Violence Against Women, 2019, Vol 25, Issue 6, p721
- ISSN
1077-8012
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/1077801218796334