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01-08-2017 | Original Article

Relationship Between Alcohol Use, Spirituality, and Coping

Authors: Iuliia Churakova, Viktor Burlaka, Thomas Wright Parker

Published in: International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction | Issue 4/2017

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Authors investigated a relationship between the frequency of alcohol consumption, spirituality, and coping with everyday life events in a cross-sectional, community-based sample of 320 adults in Ukraine, the country with one of the highest alcohol consumption levels in the world. Face-to-face interviews with participants took place in rural and urban locations across Eastern, Southern, and Central Ukraine. Results of the ordinary least-squares regression suggest that a higher frequency of alcohol consumption was related with the lower use of positive reappraisal (β = −.27, p < .001), higher use of escape-avoidance (β = .23, p < .01) and confrontive (β = .15, p < .05) coping strategies, lower spirituality (β = −.20, p < .001), and younger age (β = −.11, p < .05). On the whole, current findings suggest that specific coping behaviors, younger age, and lower spirituality are involved in higher frequency of alcohol consumption among Ukrainian adults.

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Title: Relationship Between Alcohol Use, Spirituality, and Coping
Authors: Iuliia Churakova
Viktor Burlaka
Thomas Wright Parker
Publication date: 01-08-2017
Publisher: Springer US
Published in: International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction / Issue 4/2017
Print ISSN: 1557-1874
Electronic ISSN: 1557-1882
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11469-017-9759-6

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