Goodwin, Madeline
(2022)
Drinking in a Social Context: Does Group Rapport
Moderate the Effects of Alcohol on Emotion?
Master's Thesis, University of Pittsburgh.
(Unpublished)
Abstract
Emotional responses to alcohol are varied and span the affective spectrum from feelings of euphoria to anxiety and depression. A challenge for the alcohol research field has been to characterize the factors that impact alcohol response. While many studies have examined individual differences as moderators of alcohol response, few have tested the impact of the social context in which drinking occurs. The current study represents the first examination of the effect of an emergent aspect of the social environment—initial group rapport— on alcohol emotional response. Analyses made use of a large social drinking database in which 240 groups of three strangers were randomly assigned to consume either alcohol, placebo, or no-alcohol control beverages while they interacted freely for 36 minutes. Individual and group-level emotions were indexed by coding affect-related facial expressions during the last 18 minutes of each group interaction. Initial group rapport, a measure of how well each group got along, was coded during the first minute of each group interaction. Multilevel regression models tested the interaction between initial group rapport and the three-level beverage condition variable in predicting facial affect outcomes. Results suggested that initial group rapport predicts measures of positive affect and group bonding – a novel finding for the social psychology literature on rapport. However, results showed no interaction between initial group rapport and beverage condition, indicating that, in the current database, alcohol emotional response was not appreciably influenced by initial group rapport. Future studies should continue to probe the impact of rapport, and other aspects of social interactions, on alcohol response.
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| Item Type: |
University of Pittsburgh ETD
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| Status: |
Unpublished |
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| Date: |
13 August 2022 |
| Date Type: |
Publication |
| Defense Date: |
14 December 2021 |
| Approval Date: |
4 December 2024 |
| Submission Date: |
5 August 2022 |
| Access Restriction: |
No restriction; Release the ETD for access worldwide immediately. |
| Number of Pages: |
82 |
| Institution: |
University of Pittsburgh |
| Schools and Programs: |
Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences > Psychology |
| Degree: |
MS - Master of Science |
| Thesis Type: |
Master's Thesis |
| Refereed: |
Yes |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: |
alcohol, emotion, rapport, social |
| Date Deposited: |
04 Dec 2024 16:57 |
| Last Modified: |
04 Dec 2024 18:08 |
| URI: |
http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/id/eprint/43507 |
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