Page No :375-384
Pranaw Chhetri, and Sumnima Rai,
Sikkim University, Gangtok, Sikkim, India.
The current study has utilised mediation analysis to examine the relationship between
difficulties in emotion regulation and alcohol use in young adult females with mediating
effects of depression. The sample included young adult females (N = 100) of the age of
18 to 40 years. The measures used to collect data were Difficulties in Emotion Regulation
Scale – short form (DERS-SF), Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT), and
Beck Depression Inventory-II (BDI-II). Correlation analysis have reported a significant
positive relationship between difficulties in emotion regulation, alcohol use and
depression. Mediation analysis results reported a significant indirect effect (IE = .341).
However, the direct effect was not significant. The study found that the relationship
between difficulties in emotion regulation and alcohol use is entirely accounted for by
depression. It was also reported that five out of six subscales of difficulties in emotion
regulation (i.e. Strategies, Non-acceptance, Impulse, Goals, and Clarity) had a significant
indirect effect on alcohol use via depression