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Brief Treatment and Crisis Intervention Advance Access originally published online on July 6, 2006
Brief Treatment and Crisis Intervention 2006 6(3):268-282; doi:10.1093/brief-treatment/mhl007
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Original Article

Anxiety Sensitivity and Situation-Specific Drinking in Women With Alcohol Problems

   Sandra M. Reyno, MSc
   Sherry H. Stewart, PhD
   Catrina G. Brown, PhD
   Peter Horvath, PhD
   Juliana Wiens, MSW

From the Department of Psychology, Dalhousie University (Reyno, Stewart), Department of Psychiatry, Dalhousie University (Stewart), Maritime School of Social Work, Dalhousie University (Brown, Wiens), and Department of Psychology, Acadia University (Horvath)

Contact author: Sherry H. Stewart, Department of Psychiatry, Dalhousie University, 8th Floor, AJL Memorial Building, 5909 Veterans Memorial Lane, Halifax, NS B3H 2E2, Canada. E-mail: sherry.stewart{at}dal.ca.

We examined the unique contributions of depression, anxiety, and anxiety sensitivity (AS) in predicting frequency of drinking in different high-risk situations among 60 women receiving treatment for alcohol problems. Participants completed the Beck Depression Inventory-II, Beck Anxiety Inventory, Anxiety Sensitivity Index, and Short Form Inventory of Drinking Situations (IDS-42). Together, the negative emotionality variables reliably predicted scores on the IDS-42 negative and temptation drinking situations subscales but did not reliably predict scores on the IDS-42 positive drinking situations subscales. With one exception, only AS contributed unique variance in predicting negative and temptation context drinking. Both AS and depression contributed unique variance in predicting drinking in conflict with others situations. Implications for treating comorbid emotional and alcohol-use disorders in women are discussed.

KEY WORDS: comorbidity, anxiety sensitivity, depression, situation-specific drinking, alcohol-use disorders, women






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