Insecure attachment styles, relationship-drinking contexts, and marital alcohol problems: Testing the mediating role of relationship-specific drinking-to-cope motives.
Insecure attachment styles, relationship-drinking contexts, and marital alcohol problems: Testing the mediating role of relationship-specific drinking-to-cope motives.
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10.1037/adb0000064
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2015-09
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Leonard KE
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Levitt A;Leonard KE
研究和理论表明，浪漫的夫妇成员有动机喝酒，以科普人际关系的困扰。此外，这种行为及其后果似乎与不安全的依恋风格存在差异。然而，没有研究直接研究饮酒是为了科普特定的关系问题，或者特定的关系饮酒结果。基于酒精动机和依恋理论，本研究探讨了婚姻早期特定的饮酒应对过程。具体来说，有人假设，为了科普关系问题而喝酒会调解不安全依恋风格之间的联系（即，焦虑型和回避型）以及与伴侣一起饮酒和与伴侣分开饮酒的频率以及已婚夫妇的婚姻酒精问题。多层次模型进行了测试，通过演员-合作伙伴相互依赖模型使用的报告，双方成员的470对夫妇在第一个9年的婚姻。正如预期的那样，关系特定的饮酒，以科普介导的影响，演员焦虑依恋饮酒除了一个人的合作伙伴和婚姻酒精问题，但出乎意料的是，不喝酒的合作伙伴。没有发现中介效应的附件回避。结果表明，焦虑（但不是回避）的个人的动机，使用酒精，以科普具体的关系问题，在某些情况下，这可能会加剧与依恋焦虑的关系困难。关系动机饮酒的理论和未来的研究的影响进行了讨论。
Research and theory suggest that romantic couple members are motivated to drink to cope with interpersonal distress. Additionally, this behavior and its consequences appear to be differentially associated with insecure attachment styles. However, no research has directly examined drinking to cope that is specific to relationship problems, or with relationship-specific drinking outcomes. Based on alcohol motivation and attachment theories, the current study examines relationship-specific drinking-to-cope processes over the early years of marriage. Specifically, it was hypothesized that drinking to cope with a relationship problem would mediate the associations between insecure attachment styles (i.e., anxious and avoidant) and frequencies of drinking with and apart from one’s partner and marital alcohol problems in married couples. Multilevel models were tested via the Actor-Partner Interdependence Model using reports of both members of 470 couples over the first 9 years of marriage. As expected, relationship-specific drinking-to-cope motives mediated the effects of actor anxious attachment on drinking apart from one’s partner and on marital alcohol problems, but, unexpectedly, not on drinking with the partner. No mediated effects were found for attachment avoidance. Results suggest that anxious (but not avoidant) individuals are motivated to use alcohol to cope specifically with relationship problems in certain contexts, which may exacerbate relationship difficulties associated with attachment anxiety. Implications for theory and future research on relationship-motivated drinking are discussed.