@article{ref1,
title="Coping style mediates impact of stress on alcohol use: a prospective population-based study",
journal="Addiction",
year="2007",
author="Veenstra, Marja Y. and Lemmens, P. H. and Friesema, Ingrid H. M. and Tan, Frans E. S. and Garretsen, Henk F. L. and Knottnerus, J. A. and Zwietering, Paul J.",
volume="102",
number="12",
pages="1890-1898",
abstract="AIMS: This study examines the relationship between stressful life-events and alcohol use in a longitudinal cohort study, and investigates whether gender, coping style and social support modify this relationship. DESIGN, SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS: Data analysed in this paper come from a sample of 1608 men and 1645 women drawn randomly from the cohort known as the Dutch Lifestyle and Health Study, consisting of 16,210 men and women aged 45-70 years, who were followed-up for 4 years (1996-2000). MEASUREMENT: Alcohol use (recent and in the more distant past), occurrence of threatening life-events, coping style (action, cognitive and emotion coping), social support (perceived, actual support and social contacts) and other potential confounding factors were assessed with five annual self-administered questionnaires. The data were analysed with a mixed-effects modelling technique, controlling for interactions with time and gender. FINDINGS AND CONCLUSION: An interaction effect was found between experiencing a negative life-event and emotion coping on alcohol use. A positive relationship was found between the occurrence of negative life-events and alcohol use in subjects scoring high on emotion coping, and a negative one among subjects scoring low on emotion coping. Cognitive coping, action coping, actual support, social contacts and gender did not modify the relationship between life-events and alcohol use. However, having a more cognitive coping style or more social contacts was associated with a lower level of alcohol use, whereas having an action coping style and receiving more actual social support was associated with a higher drinking level. It seems plausible that people scoring high on emotion coping, characterized by a passive, resigned, indulgent and self-accusatory coping style, increase their alcohol use after experiencing a negative life-event.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0965-2140",
doi="10.1111/j.1360-0443.2007.02026.x",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1360-0443.2007.02026.x"
}