@article{ref1,
title="An examination of the tension reduction hypothesis: the relationship between anxiety and alcohol in college students",
journal="Addictive behaviors",
year="1989",
author="Kalodner, C. R. and Delucia, J. L. and Ursprung, A. W.",
volume="14",
number="6",
pages="649-654",
abstract="The Tension Reduction Theory posits that alcohol is consumed to achieve tension reduction. The drinking patterns of high anxiety college students differed from low anxiety college students. Eighty-one students completed the Trait scale of the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory and the Khavari Alcohol Test (KAT). Several indices of alcohol use derived from the KAT were used to assess patterns of alcohol use. Five two-way analyses of variance were conducted using gender and anxiety as factors. Hypothesis One predicted that there would be a significant difference in alcohol consumption between high and low anxiety students when a comprehensive measure of alcohol use was used. This hypothesis was supported. Hypothesis Two predicted that frequency alone would not differentiate between anxiety levels; this was also supported. The Third Hypothesis was that volume measures of beer, wine and liquor would differentiate between the high and low anxiety levels; this hypothesis was partially supported--beer volume did differentiate between groups, while wine and liquor volume did not. The final hypothesis was that there would be an interaction between gender and anxiety; this was not supported.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0306-4603",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}