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Irritability, Executive Functioning, And The Alcohol-Aggression Relation, Aaron John Godlaski
Irritability, Executive Functioning, And The Alcohol-Aggression Relation, Aaron John Godlaski
University of Kentucky Master's Theses
The purpose of this investigation was twofold. First, to test the hypothesis that irritability and executive functioning (EF), two previously established risk factors for alcohol-related aggression, would interact to conjointly confer multiplicative risk for intoxicated violence that is not observed when testing either variable alone. Second, to test the hypothesis that irritability would mediate the relation between EF and alcohol-related aggression. EF was measured using seven well-established neuropsychological tests. Irritability was measured using the Caprara Irritability Scale-CIS. Participants were 310 male and female social drinkers between the ages of 21 – 35 years old. After consuming an …