Predictors of hazardous drinking and internet gaming severity among a military sample |
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| Authors: | Elizabeth A. Prosek Amanda L. Giordano Elizabeth E. Burgin Nancy Valverde W. Bryce Hagedorn |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Educational Psychology, Counseling, and Special Education, Penn State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA;2. Department of Counseling and Human Development Services, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA;3. Department of School Psychology & Counselor Education, William & Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia, USA;4. Department of Counselor Education & School Psychology, University of Central Florida in Orlando, Florida, USA |
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| Abstract: | Researchers have placed a necessary focus on the mental health and substance use needs of U.S. military populations. In the present study, we examined a sequential regression model in which psychological, emotional, and spiritual factors predicted hazardous drinking and internet gaming severity in a national sample of 207 with military identities. Results indicated that posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms, shame, and negative religious coping predicted hazardous alcohol use. Additionally, religious and spiritual struggles predicted higher internet gaming severity. Future research is needed to better contextualize combat era demographics and mental health risk and protective factors associated with alcohol use and internet gaming among military populations. |
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| Keywords: | hazardous drinking internet gaming military religious coping shame spiritual struggle |
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