The Alcohol-Depression Connection: Symptoms, Treatment & More
It is suggested that PSU treatment programs include intensive anger management modules, focusing on factors such as dealing with daily stressors, family conflicts, frustrations, and problems. Some studies highlight the impairment caused by alcohol consumption on processing emotional faces. One such study involved a sample of 85 social drinkers who were described as being low or high trait anger based on their responses to the anger expression index of the State-Trait Anger Expression Inventory-2 (STAXI-2) (Eastwood et al., 2020). The MBS featured repeated questionnaires to facilitate testing of the reliability of these measures36; thus, in our primary analysis we used the averaged values over available assessments. Mean CESD-10, K6, CCI, and GAD-7 scale scores were analyzed as continuous outcomes. In addition, we generated an overall global measure of depression and anxiety, by first z-scoring each of the 4 scales, and then averaging the 4 resulting z-scores. Meaning These results suggest…
