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If you are an alcoholic person and want to get rid of your
drinking habit, getting married can cause considerable reduction in your alcohol
intake, According to a study which suggests that tying the knot could be a key
tool in helping combat alcoholism.
Study on alcohol-use disorders shows that problem of drinking decreases
as we age. Also called, “maturing out” these changes generally happen to start
during young adulthood and are partially caused by the roles and
responsibilities we have to take as we mature.
“A key conceptual framework psychologists use to explain
maturing out and the ‘marriage effect’ is role-incompatibility theory,” said Matthew Lee, a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of
Psychological Sciences in the College of Arts and Science at MU (University
of Missouri)
"The theory
suggests that if a person’s existing behavioral pattern is conflicting with
the demands of a new role, such as marriage, one way to resolve the
incompatibility is to change behavior.
We hypothesized
that this incompatibility may be greater for more severe drinkers, so they’ll
need to make greater changes to their drinking to meet the role demands of
marriage."
The researchers
used previously collected data from a long-term, ongoing study of familial
alcohol disorders led by Laurie Chassin, Regents Professor of Psychology in the
Department of Psychology at Arizona State University.
They examined how the drinking rates of the
participants changed as they aged from age 18 to 40, and how this change was
affected by whether or not participants became married. About 50 percent of the
participants included in the study of familial alcoholism were children of
alcoholics.
“Confirming our prediction, we found that marriage not only led to reductions in heavy drinking in general, this effect was much stronger for those who were severe problem drinkers before getting married,” Lee said.
“Confirming our prediction, we found that marriage not only led to reductions in heavy drinking in general, this effect was much stronger for those who were severe problem drinkers before getting married,” Lee said.
“This seems consistent with role incompatibility theory. We
believe that greater problem drinking likely conflicts more with the demands of
roles like marriage; thus, more severe problem drinkers are likely required to
more substantially alter their drinking habits to adapt to the marital role,”
Lee said.
The researchers suggest further studies are needed to better
understand how these role-driven drinking reductions occur.
They believe this could uncover key insights into the nature of
clinically significant forms of problem drinking and inform public policy and
clinical efforts to help severe problem drinkers.
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