Cognitive and affective empathy in binge drinking adolescents: Does empathy moderate the effect of self-efficacy in resisting peer pressure to drink?

The Protective Association of Trait and Ability Emotional Intelligence with Adolescent Tobacco Use

“…The present study offers revealing data on the relationship between EI and tobacco use after controlling for sex and age in a sample of Spanish adolescents. First of all, in accordance with previous literature on the field of EI and drug consumption in adolescence [19,27,28], the effect size of the correlations was mainly low, although medium effect size was found between the variable "have tried tobacco before" and the factors of clarity and emotional repair. Secondly, the findings of this research support that both the components of clarity and emotional repair trait EI and the factors of perception and understanding of ability EI were inversely associated with tobacco use, as opposed to emotional attention, which was directly associated.…”

“…Of the protective factors for substance use, special attention should be paid to emotional intelligence (EI), the promotion of which at young ages may serve as a novel preventive measure [26][27][28][29]. EI is regarded as a factor in promoting public health [30] and preventing psychosocial maladjustment in adolescence [31][32][33][34].…”

Differential brain responses for perception of pain during empathic response in binge drinkers compared to non-binge drinkers

“…Previous research showed that binge drinking is associated with reduced subjective ratings of empathy (e.g. Laghi et al, 2019 ; Lannoy et al, 2020 ). To our knowledge, there are no previous studies addressing such empathy responses in binge drinking using behavioral measures.…”

“…For instance, childhood deficits in emotional and interpersonal skills are related to risky alcohol consumption and drug use in adolescence ( Hessler and Katz, 2010 ). Decreased trait empathy is shown to contribute to a reduced resistance to peer pressure to drink among binge drinking adolescents ( Laghi et al, 2019 ). There is also evidence that difficulties in the recognition of emotions of fear and sadness are associated with a pattern of binge drinking behavior in young individuals ( Lannoy et al, 2019 ), while decreased empathy is associated with increased alcohol consumption in 13–20 years old youths ( Lannoy et al, 2020 ).…”

Adolescents who binge eat and drink: The role of emotion regulation

“…It may be that the lack of ER skills can induce binge eaters to learn to use such dysfunctional behavior as a coping strategy. 29,[59][60][61] Indeed, earlier experimental studies 55,57,62 showed how training in CR to regulate negative emotions reduced binge eating behaviors; conversely, using ES to manage negative emotional states, resulted in more food consumption. Thus, our data support the argument that binge eaters may have difficulties in managing emotions especially when they are faced with negative ones and are characterized by a great use of maladaptive ER strategies, as they have not learnt more adaptive and functional ways to regulate them.…”