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Study results from Dalhousie University provide new insights into behavior.
"Empirical examinations of the relation between anxiety sensitivity (AS) and alcohol use have yielded inconsistent results, with some studies finding a positive association and other studies finding no association. The present study sought to clarify this relation by examining the moderational effects of alcohol expectancies (i.e., tension reduction, cognitive and behavioral impairment) on the AS-alcohol use association," researchers in Halifax, Canada report (see also Behavior).
"Gender-specific pathways were also examined. Participants (N = 158, 82 women) were alcohol nonabstaining college freshmen who completed a questionnaire battery including assessments of alcohol expectancies (four positive subscales: sociability, tension reduction, liquid courage, and sexuality; three negative subscales: cognitive and behavioral impairment, risk and aggression, and self-perception), AS, and alcohol use (past month). Regression analysis was used to test three-way AS x Gender x Alcohol Expectancy interaction terms predicting alcohol use. Only the tension reduction and cognitive and behavioral impairment subscales entered into significant (P
The researchers concluded: "These findings provide an explanation for why AS has been inconsistently linked to alcohol use in prior research and suggest that models of alcohol use incorporating AS ...
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- Newspaper article from: Psychology & Psychiatry Journal July 25, 2009 700+ words
...daily reports of mood and alcohol consumption online for 3 weeks...higher daily depressed mood-alcohol consumption slopes. Also...predicted higher anxious mood-alcohol consumption slopes," wrote V.V. Grant and colleagues, Dalhousie University. The researchers concluded...
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- Newspaper article from: Mental Health Weekly Digest March 9, 2009 700+ words
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- Press release article from: Business Wire June 9, 2005 700+ words
...sponsors for the establishment of Dalhousie University's Computer Science Privacy and...an all-day forum held today at Dalhousie University to formally launch the lab. "We...Schwarz. "We are very interested in Dalhousie University's unique, multi-disciplinary...
- Dalhousie University details research in glaucoma.
- Newspaper article from: Biotech Week November 18, 2009 700+ words
...wrote P.H. Artes and colleagues, Dalhousie University (see also Glaucoma). The researchers...information, contact P.H. Artes, Dalhousie University, Room 2035, West Victoria, 1276...Angle Glaucoma, Ophthalmology, Dalhousie University. This article was prepared by Biotech...
- Dalhousie University details research in science education.(Report)
- Newspaper article from: Education Letter March 25, 2009 700+ words
...wrote L. Roberts and colleagues, Dalhousie University. The researchers concluded...information, contact R. Wassersug, Dalhousie University, Dept. of Anatomy & Neurobiology...Halifax, Life Sciences, Education, Dalhousie University. This article was prepared by Education...
- Dalhousie University details research in ischemia.
- Newspaper article from: Blood Weekly October 23, 2008 700+ words
...J.D. Obrien and colleagues, Dalhousie University. The researchers concluded...by contacting S.E. Howlett, Dalhousie University, Dept. of Pharmacology, 5850...Medicine, Treatment, Trypan Blue, Dalhousie University. This article was prepared by Blood...
- Dalhousie University details research in public health.
- Newspaper article from: Health & Medicine Week June 29, 2009 700+ words
...wrote C.D. Simms and colleagues, Dalhousie University. The researchers concluded...obtained by contacting C.D. Simms, Dalhousie University, School Health Administration...Sciences, Pediatrics, Public Health, Dalhousie University. This article was prepared by Health...
