@article{ref1,
title="Protective behavioral strategies mediate problem-focused coping and alcohol use in college students",
journal="Addictive behaviors",
year="2014",
author="Walker, Robrina and Stephens, Robert S.",
volume="39",
number="6",
pages="1033-1037",
abstract="OBJECTIVE: Protective behavioral strategies have emerged as a construct protective against alcohol use. The current study examines the theoretical associations among general coping styles, protective behavioral strategies, drinking to cope motives, and alcohol use in college students. <br><br>METHOD: Analyses of fully latent variables were conducted using structural equation modeling in a sample of 327 college students. <br><br>RESULTS: Protective behavioral strategies partially mediated the association between problem-focused coping and alcohol use. Behaviorally oriented problem-focused coping strategies accounted for the positive relationship between problem-focused coping and protective behavioral strategies whereas cognitively oriented problem-focused coping strategies were associated with less use of protective behavioral strategies and increased alcohol use. <br><br>CONCLUSIONS: This is the first study to find that protective behavioral strategies are more likely to be used by college students who endorse using a problem-focused coping style, especially if they tend to use behaviorally oriented problem-focused coping strategies. These findings extend the literature on protective behavioral strategies and indicate that students less likely to use problem-focused coping skills to deal with stress in general may need additional interventions to increase their use of protective behavioral strategies.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0306-4603",
doi="10.1016/j.addbeh.2014.02.006",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.addbeh.2014.02.006"
}