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Social anxiety and alcohol use: evaluation of the moderating and mediating effects of alcohol expectancies.

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Social facilitation expectancies appear to operate as a suppressor variable in the relationship between social anxiety and alcohol use, and are related to decreased drinking.
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This article is published in Journal of Anxiety Disorders.The article was published on 2004-01-01. It has received 129 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Social anxiety & Anxiety.

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The relationship between social anxiety disorder and alcohol use disorders: A critical review

TL;DR: With a better understanding of this complex relationship, treatment programs will be able to better target specific individuals for treatment and potentially improve the efficacy of the treatments currently available for individuals with co-morbid SAD and AUD.
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Social anxiety and problematic alcohol consumption: the mediating role of drinking motives and situations.

TL;DR: Investigating drinking motives and drinking situations in an undergraduate sample suggests that alcohol use to enhance positive affect or in response to these specific situations may account for the risk for alcohol-related problems among those with social anxiety.
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Relations of social anxiety variables to drinking motives, drinking quantity and frequency, and alcohol-related problems in undergraduates

TL;DR: The relationship between fear of negative evaluation and drinking problems was mediated by coping and conformity drinking motives, and implications for developing effective integrated treatments for co-occurring social anxiety and alcohol problems are discussed.
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Social anxiety, alcohol expectancies, and self-efficacy as predictors of heavy drinking in college students

TL;DR: As predicted by the model, socially anxious college students with low self-efficacy for avoiding heavy drinking in social situations and high positive expectancies for social facilitation reported more alcohol consumption than other socially anxious individuals.
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The moderator–mediator variable distinction in social psychological research: Conceptual, strategic, and statistical considerations.

TL;DR: This article seeks to make theorists and researchers aware of the importance of not using the terms moderator and mediator interchangeably by carefully elaborating the many ways in which moderators and mediators differ, and delineates the conceptual and strategic implications of making use of such distinctions with regard to a wide range of phenomena.
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Comorbidity of Mental Disorders With Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse. Results From the Epidemiologic Catchment Area (ECA) Study

TL;DR: Comorbidity of addictive and severe mental disorders was highest in the prison population, most notably with antisocial personality, schizophrenia, and bipolar disorders.
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Equivalence of the Mediation, Confounding and Suppression Effect

TL;DR: The statistical similarities among mediation, confounding, and suppression are described and methods to determine the confidence intervals for confounding and suppression effects are proposed based on methods developed for mediated effects.
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Development and validation of measures of social phobia scrutiny fear and social interaction anxiety

TL;DR: The Social Phobia Scale (SPS) and the Social Interaction Anxiety Scale (SIAS) as mentioned in this paper are two companion measures for assessing social phobia fears, which are developed and validated for clinical and research applications.
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Towards the assessment of adolescent problem drinking.

TL;DR: The results suggest that the RAPI may be a useful tool for the standardized and efficient assessment of problem drinking during adolescence.
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