ABSTRACT

Background

Whilst drinking to reduce negative affect (e.g., anxiety and depression) is a commonly reported motivation for consuming alcohol, minimal research has explored associations between shame-proneness and self-reported outcome expectancies from alcohol use. The present study aimed to explore the relationship between guilt, shame and alcohol use-related expectancies in a predominately undergraduate, community sample.

Methods

Self-report data was collected for measures of these constructs in addition to overall alcohol use from a sample of 281 individuals, mean age 22.22 years (SD = 7.83).

Results

Overall alcohol consumption was associated with both positive and negative alcohol use outcome expectancies. Contrary to hypotheses, shame-prone individuals did not appear to have a particularly strong belief that alcohol is actually effective in reducing tension. However, shame-prone individuals may believe that alcohol helps serve to reduce physiological arousal and other anxiety-related phenomena experienced in social contexts, and possibly also in the lead up to and during intimate encounters. In contrast, guilt-prone individuals expect and believe that they are successfully able to avoid negative emotional experiences after having consumed alcohol.

Conclusions

Findings are broadly congruent with research indicating that shame-proneness is associated with general emotion regulation difficulties, while guilt-proneness tends to be unrelated to such problems.

中文翻译：

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羞耻和内疚的人格风格是否与不同的酒精使用相关结果预期相关？

摘要

背景

虽然饮酒以减少负面影响（例如，焦虑和抑郁）是一种常见的饮酒动机，但很少有研究探讨了羞耻倾向与饮酒后自我报告的预期结果之间的关联。本研究旨在探讨以本科生为主的社区样本中的内疚、羞耻和与酒精使用相关的预期之间的关系。

方法

除了从 281 名个体的总体酒精使用情况（平均年龄 22.22 岁）（ SD  = 7.83）中收集到的自我报告数据外，还收集了这些结构的测量数据。

结果

总体饮酒量与积极和消极的酒精使用结果预期相关。与假设相反，容易羞耻的人似乎并没有特别强烈的信念，即酒精实际上能有效减轻压力。然而，容易羞耻的人可能认为酒精有助于减少生理唤醒和其他在社交环境中经历的与焦虑相关的现象，也可能在亲密接触之前和期间。相比之下，内疚倾向的人期望并相信他们能够成功地避免饮酒后的负面情绪体验。

结论

研究结果与表明羞耻倾向与一般情绪调节困难相关的研究大体一致，而内疚倾向往往与这些问题无关。