Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Cameron Quan

Date

2023

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Science

Department

Psychology

Committee Chair

Meghan McDevitt-Murphy

Committee Member

Mollie B Anderson

Committee Member

James G Murphy

Abstract

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD) are highly comorbid, and this co-occurrence is of particular concern among veterans. Alcohol misuse has shown to be a method of coping with negative PTSD symptoms. In a harm reduction approach, alcohol-related consequences can serve as an outcome measure in the testing of brief alcohol interventions when measured through severity level. The current investigation is a secondary analysis using data from a trial of two brief interventions used in a veteran sample published by McDevitt-Murphy and colleagues (2014). This study investigated: (a) the 3-factor model of the DrInC and (b) the moderating effects of coping motives on the relationship between PTSD severity and alcohol-related consequences in a sample of 68 OEF/OIF veterans. Significant reductions were only found for the DrInC Mild and Moderate factors. Coping motives did not moderate the relationship between PTSD severity and alcohol-related consequences.

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Dissertation or thesis originally submitted to ProQuest

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