Negative-reinforcement drinking motives mediate the relation between anxiety sensitivity and increased drinking behavior

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Do gaming motives mediate between psychiatric symptoms and problematic gaming? An empirical survey study (2017, background): “More specifically, studies have found a mediation role of coping motivation between symptoms such as anxiety and depression, and alcohol abuse (Cooper et al. 1995; Stewart et al. 2001; Kaysen et al. 2007; Mason et al. 2014).”
College students and problematic drinking: a review of the literature. (2003, background): “…Cooper's (1994) fourfactor model found that conformity motives explained elevated drinking in male college students who are high in anxiety sensitivity (Stewart et al., 2001), indicating that these men may be motivated to drink to avoid aversive external consequences such as social embarrassment .”
Brief CBT for high anxiety sensitivity decreases drinking problems, relief alcohol outcome expectancies, and conformity drinking motives: Evidence from a randomized controlled trial (2006, background): “Coping and conformity motives have been found to directly predict drinking problems, even after controlling for usual levels of alcohol use (Cooper, 1994), and to independently mediate relations between AS and increased drinking frequency (Stewart et al. (2001).”