Buckner Julia D, Thomas Katharine L, Morris Paige E
Department of Psychology, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA.
Am J Addict. 2024 Nov;33(6):641-647. doi: 10.1111/ajad.13573. Epub 2024 May 8.
Experiencing sexism is related to more alcohol-related problems, presumably via drinking to cope with negative affect associated with experiencing sexism. Yet no known studies have directly tested whether the relation of sexism to alcohol problems occurs via relevant negative emotions and drinking to cope with negative emotions. Given that sexism is a type of negative evaluation, social anxiety may be one type of negative affect that plays a role in sexism's relation with drinking behaviors.
This study tested whether sexism was related to alcohol-related problems via the serial effects of social anxiety and coping-motivated alcohol use among 836 cis-female undergraduates who endorsed past-month alcohol use.
Past-year experiences with sexism were positively correlated with coping and conformity-motivated alcohol use, alcohol problems (but not peak estimated blood alcohol content, eBAC), social anxiety, and depression. After statistically controlling for depression and peak eBAC, sexism was indirectly related to alcohol problems via the serial effects of social anxiety and drinking motives (coping, conformity).
Results highlight the important role of social anxiety and drinking to cope with negative emotions and to fit in with peers who drink in relation of sexism with alcohol-related problems.
This is the first known study to find that experiences of sexism are related to alcohol problems via the serial effects of social anxiety and coping and conformity-motivated drinking. This is also the first known study to find that sexism is related to more conformity-motivated drinking.
遭受性别歧视与更多与酒精相关的问题有关，推测是通过饮酒来应对与遭受性别歧视相关的负面影响。然而，尚无已知研究直接检验性别歧视与酒精问题之间的关系是否通过相关负面情绪以及为应对负面情绪而饮酒产生。鉴于性别歧视是一种负面评价，社交焦虑可能是在性别歧视与饮酒行为的关系中起作用的一种负面影响。
本研究在836名认可过去一个月有饮酒行为的顺性别女大学生中，检验了性别歧视是否通过社交焦虑和以应对为动机的饮酒的系列效应与酒精相关问题有关。
过去一年的性别歧视经历与以应对和顺应为动机的饮酒、酒精问题（但不包括估计的血液酒精含量峰值，即eBAC）、社交焦虑和抑郁呈正相关。在对抑郁和eBAC峰值进行统计学控制后，性别歧视通过社交焦虑和饮酒动机（应对、顺应）的系列效应与酒精问题间接相关。
结果凸显了社交焦虑以及为应对负面情绪和融入饮酒同伴而饮酒在性别歧视与酒精相关问题关系中的重要作用。
这是已知的第一项研究发现性别歧视经历通过社交焦虑以及以应对和顺应为动机的饮酒的系列效应与酒精问题有关。这也是已知的第一项研究发现性别歧视与更多以顺应为动机的饮酒有关。
