Resumen: Epidemiological studies reveal a high prevalence of alcohol use and comorbidity rates with emotional disorders. This study aims to explore the possible mediational effect of stress-coping strategies on the relationship between symptoms of emotional disorders and problematic alcohol use.
Methods. The sample included 1014 participants (33.82% male, 66.17% female) aged 18–75 years (M = 33.0, SD = 15.15). Three mediation analyzes were carried out, for depressive, anxious and somatization symptomatology measured with the LSB-50 in which they acted as an independent variable, the coping strategies of the CSQ as a mediating variable and the problematic alcohol use, measured with AUDIT, as a dependent variable. Additionally, sex, age, educational level, and socioeconomic status were entered as covariates.
Results. In all the models, problematic alcohol use was mediated by Problem-Solving Focus and Open Emotional Expression. However, while in depressive symptoms was a fully mediation, in anxious and somatization symptomatology was partially mediated.
Conclusions. The similarities found may be due to shared variance between emotional disorders. Interventions focused on Problem-Solving Focus could improve the emotional symptoms and the problematic alcohol use. Idioma: Inglés DOI: 10.1016/j.alcohol.2024.07.008 Año: 2024 Publicado en: ALCOHOL 124 (2024), 47-53 ISSN: 0741-8329 Factor impacto JCR: 2.9 (2024) Categ. JCR: PHARMACOLOGY & PHARMACY rank: 150 / 352 = 0.426 (2024) - Q2 - T2 Categ. JCR: TOXICOLOGY rank: 49 / 106 = 0.462 (2024) - Q2 - T2 Categ. JCR: SUBSTANCE ABUSE rank: 16 / 58 = 0.276 (2024) - Q2 - T1 Factor impacto SCIMAGO: 0.704 - Health (social science) (Q2) - Medicine (miscellaneous) (Q2) - Biochemistry (Q2) - Toxicology (Q2) - Neurology (Q3) - Behavioral Neuroscience (Q3)