TY - JOUR
T1 - Consuming to Cope
T2 - Investigating College Students’ Expressive Suppression as an Indirect Effect of Family Communication and Drinking Context
AU - Shimkowski, Jenna R.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 Central States Communication Association.
Copyright:
Copyright 2016 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2016/8/7
Y1 - 2016/8/7
N2 - This study explored relationships between family communication patterns, college students’ expressive suppression, and drinking to cope, aiming to assess whether suppression might represent an indirect effect in the relationship between conformity orientation and drinking to cope. Participants (N = 251) completed an online questionnaire analyzed using CFA and SEM. Results indicated that conformity orientation has a small impact on drinking to cope and that conformity orientation predicts suppression. Specifically, students from protective family types tend to use suppression more and are more likely to drink to cope. Results also demonstrated a small relationship between suppression and drinking to cope. Lastly, college students’ use of suppression acts as an indirect effect in explaining a small part of the association between conformity orientation and drinking to cope.
AB - This study explored relationships between family communication patterns, college students’ expressive suppression, and drinking to cope, aiming to assess whether suppression might represent an indirect effect in the relationship between conformity orientation and drinking to cope. Participants (N = 251) completed an online questionnaire analyzed using CFA and SEM. Results indicated that conformity orientation has a small impact on drinking to cope and that conformity orientation predicts suppression. Specifically, students from protective family types tend to use suppression more and are more likely to drink to cope. Results also demonstrated a small relationship between suppression and drinking to cope. Lastly, college students’ use of suppression acts as an indirect effect in explaining a small part of the association between conformity orientation and drinking to cope.
KW - Alcohol
KW - Family Communication Patterns
KW - Suppression
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84976383927&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/10510974.2016.1197140
DO - 10.1080/10510974.2016.1197140
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84976383927
VL - 67
SP - 419
EP - 437
JO - Communication Studies
JF - Communication Studies
SN - 1051-0974
IS - 4
ER -