Relationship Quality and Alcohol-Related Social Reinforcement During Couples Interaction

Fairbairn, Catharine E.; Testa, Maria

doi:10.1177/2167702616649365

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“…Thus, the viewpoint that alcohol increases how sociable, warm, and at ease one appears was supported. This is in line with the findings that alcohol promotes more positive social behavior and more positive and less negative affect (Fairbairn & Testa, 2017; Kirchner et al, 2006; Sayette et al, 2012; Winograd et al, 2017; Winograd et al, 2014) and is consistent with common lay alcohol outcome expectancies (e.g., Brown, Christiansen, & Goldman, 1987; Fromme, Stroot, & Kaplan, 1993). These results are also consistent with findings that people commonly choose to consume alcohol as a means of facilitating social motives (e.g., Kuntsche, Knibbe, Gmel, & Engels, 2005).…”

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confidence: 89%

Self-Expression While Drinking Alcohol: Alcohol Influences Personality Expression During First Impressions

Orehek

Human²,

Sayette

et al. 2019

Pers Soc Psychol Bull

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People are motivated to be perceived both positively and accurately and, therefore, approach social settings and adopt means that allow them to reach these goals. We investigated whether alcohol consumption helps or hinders the positivity and accuracy of social impressions using a thin-slicing paradigm to better understand the effects of alcohol in social settings and the influence of alcohol on self-expression. These possibilities were tested in a sample of 720 participants randomly assigned to consume an alcohol, placebo, or control beverage while engaged in conversation in three-person groups. We found support for the hypothesis that alcohol (compared with placebo or control) increased the positivity of observers’ personality expression, but did not find support for the hypothesis that alcohol increased the accuracy of personality expression. These findings contribute to our understanding of the social consequences of alcohol consumption, shedding new light on the interpersonal benefits that alcohol can foster.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 89%

Self-Expression While Drinking Alcohol: Alcohol Influences Personality Expression During First Impressions

Orehek

Human²,

Sayette

et al. 2019

Pers Soc Psychol Bull

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“…Another hypothesis is that given that parental AUD is a risk factor for lower dyadic functioning (Harter, 2000), couples in which one or both partners grow up with an affected parent may be at particular risk of using alcohol as a tool to improve their marital interactions (Fairbairn & Testa, 2016). More broadly, spouses who grew up with an AUD-affected parent may have other psychosocial liabilities that limit their ability to engage in the types of health-promoting behaviors typically associated with marriage.…”

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confidence: 99%

Disentangling Social-Genetic From Rearing-Environment Effects for Alcohol Use Disorder Using Swedish National Data

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Investigations of social-genetic effects, whereby a social partner’s genotype affects another’s outcomes, can be confounded by the influence of the social partner’s rearing environment. We used marital information on more than 300,000 couples from Swedish national data to disentangle social-genetic from rearing-environment effects for alcohol use disorder (AUD). Using observational and extended-family designs, we found that (a) marriage to a spouse with a predisposition toward AUD (as indexed by a parental history of AUD) increased risk for developing AUD; (b) this increased risk was not explained by socioeconomic status, the spouse’s AUD status, or contact with the spouse’s parents; and (c) this increased risk reflected the psychological consequences of the spouse having grown up with an AUD-affected parent (i.e., a rearing-environment effect) rather than a social-genetic effect. Findings illustrate that a spouse’s rearing-environment exposures may confer risk for AUD.

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“…Looking within the experimental realm, where researchers have examined effects of acute intoxication on relationship factors, a handful of studies have found detrimental effects of substance administration on the quality of social interaction between close relationship partners (Leonard & Roberts, 1998b; Samp & Monahan, 2009). However, the majority of studies have revealed no such detrimental effects (e.g., see Fairbairn, 2017), and many have observed a social-cohesive effect of drugs of abuse during social interaction (del Porto & Masur, 1984; Fairbairn & Testa, 2016). As noted by Leonard and colleagues, “although it seems implausible that there should be no causal influence [of substance use on close relationship functioning], the nature and strength of that causal influence are not clear” (Leonard & Eiden, 2007, p. 294).…”

Section: Substance Use and Close Social Bondsmentioning

confidence: 99%

A meta-analysis of longitudinal associations between substance use and interpersonal attachment security.

Fairbairn¹,

Briley²,

Kang³

et al. 2018

Psychological Bulletin

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Substance use has long been associated with close relationship distress. While the direction of influence for this association has not been established, it has often been assumed that substance use is the causal agent and that close relationship distress is the effect. But research seeking to establish temporal precedence in this link has produced mixed findings. Further, theoretical models of substance use and close relationship processes present the plausibility of the inverse pathway—that insecure close relationships may serve as a vulnerability factor for the development of later substance problems. The current review applies an attachment-theoretical framework to the association between close social bonds and substance use and substance-related problems. Targeting longitudinal studies of attachment and substance use, we examined 665 effect sizes drawn from 34 samples (total N=56,721) spanning time frames ranging from 1 month to 20 years (M=3.8 years). Results revealed a significant prospective correlation between earlier attachment and later substance use (r =−.11, 95%CI=−.14 to −0.08). Further, cross-lagged coefficients were calculated which parsed auto-regressive effects, indicating that lower attachment security temporally preceded increases in substance use (r=−.05, 95%CI=−.06 to −.04). Analyses further indicated that the pathway from earlier attachment to later substance use was significantly stronger than that from earlier substance use to later attachment. Results also revealed several moderators of the attachment-substance use link. These findings suggest that insecure attachment may be a vulnerability factor for substance use, and indicate close relationship quality as a promising line of inquiry in research on substance use disorder risk.

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Relationship Quality and Alcohol-Related Social Reinforcement During Couples Interaction

Cited by 18 publications

References 49 publications

Self-Expression While Drinking Alcohol: Alcohol Influences Personality Expression During First Impressions

Self-Expression While Drinking Alcohol: Alcohol Influences Personality Expression During First Impressions

Disentangling Social-Genetic From Rearing-Environment Effects for Alcohol Use Disorder Using Swedish National Data

A meta-analysis of longitudinal associations between substance use and interpersonal attachment security.

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