Alcohol-aggression Expectancies and Dispositional Rumination Moderate the Effect of Alcohol Consumption on Alcohol-related Aggression and Hostility

Overview

Journal Aggress Behav

Specialty Social Sciences

Date 2007 Jun 27

PMID 17593558

Citations 25

Authors

Ashley Borders

Sara Smucker Barnwell

Mitch Earleywine

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Abstract

Alcohol consumption increases aggression, but only in some drinkers. This study extends previous work to show how expectancies for alcohol-induced aggression and dispositional rumination moderate the link between alcohol consumption and alcohol-related aggression and hostility in a sample of 285 men and women. Alcohol-aggression expectancies and quantity of alcohol interacted to predict alcohol-related hostility and aggression. Trait rumination moderated the effect of alcohol consumption on aggressive acts. Finally, women who ruminated were more likely to report alcohol-related aggression than were men who ruminated. These results suggest that alcohol expectancies for aggression and rumination constitute two important cognitive facilitators of alcohol-related aggression and hostility, and that gender plays an important role in these relations.

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