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The Robust Relation of Microaggressions with Alcohol-Related Problems Among Black Individuals Who Use Alcohol: the Role of Drinking to Cope with Negative Affect
Alcohol use is an important area of health disparities among Black individuals in the United States (US). The identification of psycho-sociocultural factors that play a role in alcohol-related problems among t...
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Financial Strain Among Black Smokers in Terms of Abstinence Expectancies
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Correction to: Microaggressions and Cannabis-Related Problems Among Black Adults: The Roles of Negative Affect and Cannabis Use Motives
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Alcohol-Related Problems Among Black Adults: the Role of False Safety Behaviors
Black adults who consume alcohol experience negative alcohol-related outcomes, indicating a need for culturally sensitive research aimed at identifying malleable psychological factors that may play a role in d...
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Microaggressions and Cannabis-Related Problems Among Black Adults: The Roles of Negative Affect and Cannabis Use Motives
Black adults who use cannabis appear at risk for poor cannabis-related outcomes, indicating a need to identify psycho-sociocultural factors related to cannabis use and related problems. This study tested wheth...
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Cannabis Use among Black Young Adults: The Interactive Effects of Ethnic-Racial Identity, Anxiety, and Sex
Black Americans who use cannabis exhibit poorer cannabis-related outcomes than other groups, highlighting a need to identify psycho-sociocultural factors related to their use. Although ethnic-racial identity (...
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Biopsychosocial Model Social Anxiety and Substance Use Revised
To review data published in the past 5 years to evaluate the utility of our biopsychosocial model of social anxiety’s relation to substance misuse to evaluate the model’s utility and update it.
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Anxiety, depression, and opioid misuse among adults with chronic pain: the role of emotion dysregulation
The opioid epidemic is a significant public health concern in the United States, particularly among adults with chronic pain. Considerable research suggests that people with mental health problems, including a...
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Anxiety Sensitivity Among Smokers During a Reduction Attempt: The Impact of Hatha Yoga
Smokers with elevated anxiety sensitivity (AS) have poorer smoking cessation outcomes. Smokers with elevated anxiety/depression report worse smoking cessation outcomes and greater AS. Thus, it is important to ...
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Cannabis and Anxiety: a Biopsychosocial Model
The current paper presents a biopsychosocial model of cannabis use and anxiety that focuses explicitly on aspects of anxiety that may contribute to cannabis use and use-related problems among individuals with ...
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4/20 Cannabis Use is Greater than Other High-Risk Events: Identification of Psychosocial Factors Related to 4/20 Use
Cannabis is the most commonly used federally illicit drug, yet little research has identified risk factors for high-risk use. Although April 20 (“4/20”) has been identified as a day on which cannabis users use...
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Addictive Behavior Interventions Among College Students
Addictive behaviors among college students are a significant public health concern. This manuscript reviews the past 2 years of the literature on prevention and treatment approaches for college students who en...
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A Tale of Two Threats: Social Anxiety and Attention to Social Threat as a Function of Social Exclusion and Non-Exclusion Threats
To attain and maintain social acceptance, people may attend to cues of possible social rejection or exclusion. Attention to such cues can be influenced by social anxiety. Two competing theories address social ...
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Social Anxiety and Bulimic Behaviors: The Moderating Role of Perfectionism
Despite the high rates of co-occurrence between social anxiety and bulimic behaviors, research investigating the mechanisms underlying these associations is lacking. Given that perfectionism is strongly relate...
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Difficulty Disengaging Attention from Social Threat in Social Anxiety
Selective attention to threat is believed to maintain social anxiety, yet the nature of attentional processing remains unclear. It has been posited that difficulty disengaging from threat cues may be implicate...
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Pretreatment Intervention Increases Treatment Outcomes for Patients with Anxiety Disorders
The current study evaluated the utility of a pretreatment intervention aimed at increasing treatment attendance. We extended past work by evaluating whether this intervention was associated with less impairmen...
