TY - JOUR
T1 - The Role of Ineffective Emotion Regulation in Problem Drinking Varies by Emotional Disposition, Delinquency, and Gender of South Korean Adolescents
AU - Song, Sunmi
AU - Graham, Jennifer E.
AU - Susman, Elizabeth J.
AU - Sohn, Young Woo
N1 - Funding Information:
The pilot data were based on the “Alcohol Use and Adolescent Crime Project,” funded by the National Youth Committee in Republic of Korea. Authors appreciate Dr. Kwang Kee Kim and Ms. Jegal Jung’s cooperation and support to obtain the pilot data from the prisoner sample in this study. Address correspondence to Sunmi Song, MA, 315 E. Health and Human Development Bldg., Department of Biobehavioral Health, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16801, USA. E-mail: [email protected]
PY - 2012/9
Y1 - 2012/9
N2 - This study examined the role of emotion regulation (ER) strategies and emotional disposition in problem drinking of adolescent offenders (n = 303) and non-offending peers (n = 287) from South Korea. The participants completed a questionnaire assessing problem drinking, positive and negative emotion, emotional intensity, and use of problem solving, support seeking, and avoidant ER strategies. Problem drinking was positively associated with negative emotion, emotional intensity, and support-seeking ER in both groups, and avoidant ER among offenders only. Support-seeking ER accounted for the association between positive emotion and drinking in both groups, and avoidant ER further accounted for the association between positive emotion and drinking among offenders. Only among female offenders was the association between emotional intensity and drinking explained by support-seeking ER. The results imply that intervention to improve ER effectiveness, taking into account emotional disposition, delinquency differences, and gender, may help lessen problem drinking among adolescents.
AB - This study examined the role of emotion regulation (ER) strategies and emotional disposition in problem drinking of adolescent offenders (n = 303) and non-offending peers (n = 287) from South Korea. The participants completed a questionnaire assessing problem drinking, positive and negative emotion, emotional intensity, and use of problem solving, support seeking, and avoidant ER strategies. Problem drinking was positively associated with negative emotion, emotional intensity, and support-seeking ER in both groups, and avoidant ER among offenders only. Support-seeking ER accounted for the association between positive emotion and drinking in both groups, and avoidant ER further accounted for the association between positive emotion and drinking among offenders. Only among female offenders was the association between emotional intensity and drinking explained by support-seeking ER. The results imply that intervention to improve ER effectiveness, taking into account emotional disposition, delinquency differences, and gender, may help lessen problem drinking among adolescents.
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U2 - 10.1080/1067828X.2012.710029
DO - 10.1080/1067828X.2012.710029
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84866463728
SN - 1067-828X
VL - 21
SP - 367
EP - 382
JO - Journal of Child and Adolescent Substance Abuse
JF - Journal of Child and Adolescent Substance Abuse
IS - 4
ER -
