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Title: Incorporating Coping into an Expectancy Framework for Explaining Drinking Behaviour
Author(s): Penelope A. Hasking and Tian P.S. Oei
School of Psychology, Psychiatry&Psychological Medicine, Monash University, Caulfield East VIC 3145, Melbourne, Australia.,Australia
Keywords: Drinking behaviour, alcohol expectancies, self-efficacy, coping
Abstract: Expectancy Theory has offered much in the way of understanding alcohol use and abuse, and has contributed greatly to prevention and treatment initiatives. However although many cognitive-behavioural treatment approaches are based on expectancy constructs, such as outcome expectancies and self-efficacy, high relapse rates imply that expectancy theory may be too narrow in scope, and that additional variables need to be examined if a comprehensive understanding of drinking behaviour, and better treatment outcomes, are to be achieved. We suggest that the coping strategies an individual employs present one such set of variables that have largely been neglected from an expectancy framework. Although coping skills training is routinely used in prevention and treatment of alcohol problems, coping research has suffered from a poor theoretical framework. In this paper we review the existing research relating expectancies, self-efficacy and coping to drinking behaviour and propose a model which explains both social and dependent drinking, by incorporating coping into an expectancy theory framework. We also outline research and clinical implications of the proposed model.
Hasking A. Penelope and Oei P.S. Tian, Incorporating Coping into an Expectancy Framework for Explaining Drinking Behaviour, Current Drug Abuse Reviews 2008; 1(1) . https://dx.doi.org/10.2174/1874473710801010020