Alcohol Consumption and Its Effect on Emotional Health: An Annotated Bibliography

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This paper will paper will illustrate an annotated bibliography by applying the reflection model
describe by Morrissey & Callaghan (2011).
Stage 1:
From the school of research groups (school of nursing-midwifery, 2018) I have chosen
the topic “alcohol and its effect on a person’s mood”. I have interested in this topic during my
placement in the mental health clinical department. During my placement, numerous encounters
with the mental health patients who had the history of consuming alcohol highlighted that people
who often drink to regulate emotions, especially people drink to maintain the optimistic mood
often ended up having negative emotions caused by depressions. A study by Cyders et al. (2016),
suggested that individuals who drink alcohol might experience some which are influenced by
their alcohol consumptions. During my placement, I have observed that binge-like pattern of
alcohol consumption often related to the development of depression-like symptoms, which
potentially affected their quality of life. I have observed that adolescents are at higher risk of
developing depression-like symptoms, which will further influence their quality of life.
Therefore, in order to resolve the issues associated with alcohol consumption, appropriate
research is required.
Stage 2:
Mental health of individuals is a crucial part of human being, which influences the
behaviour of human being and relationship with the surroundings (Simons et al. 2017). With the
growing prevalence of alcohol assumptions consumptions and its associated effect, especially in
adolescents, the concern arises to control the mental health of the individual. A study by Cyders

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et al. (2016), showing that in Ireland, where alcohol consumptions are high, Irish men aged
between 15 to 24 years have the tendency of committing suicide due to heavy alcohol
consumptions. Mason et al. (2014), stated that approximately 48% of the adult individuals and
over 60% of young adults between 14 to 22 years had reported the drinking behaviour outside
the normal range, the majority of them developed the chronic mental illnesses such as
depression, anxiety or other mental illness. Therefore, for young adults, there was a strong
association between excessive consumption of alcohol and suicidal behaviour observed. Hence,
the research should be conducted on this topic in order to resolve the issue.
Stage three:
In order to find the relevant research articles, initially, I have conducted the research
using PubMed using key terms such as “alcohol consumption”, “mental health” and “depression”
reveling 44 journals. From this, I have selected three-research papers that I have found relevant
to the topic of research ( Appendix 1). I also chose the articles that carried out on not only adults
but also adolescents and opted for a balance qualitative and quantitative research articles to
provide various dimensions of alcohol consumptions associations with emotions of individuals.
I have chosen these articles since research articles helped me to address the research
questions “what is the effect of the alcohol consumption on an individual’s mood’. Moreover, the
articles are peer reviewed and showed the different dynamics of the emotional mood changes
realted to the alcohol consumptions with concrete evidences.
Annotated bibliography:
Fairbairn, C.E., and Sayette, M.A., 2013. The effect of alcohol on emotional inertia: A test
of alcohol myopia. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 122(3), p.770

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The primary aim of the study is to evaluate the effect of alcohol on the emotional inertia
with the assistance of the test of alcohol myopia. The study stated that in order to understand the
alcohol’s reinfotmance properties, researchers have focused on the alcohol’s effect on the
emotions of the individuals. Growing evidence suggested that the work has been evolved to
incorporate a variety of the cognitive constructions for explaining the association between
alcohol consumptions and emotional experience of the individuals. The authors showed that the
most prominent theory of this approach is an alcohol myopia theory that highlights the subjective
experience in order to explain the impact of alcohol on individuals. The theory stated that alcohol
restricts the ability of the brain to connect immediate experience to prior experience to the extent
where individuals’ thoughts and ideas are only driven by emotions. A test has been conducted by
application of the theory practically considering the micro level where the tracking response time
in milliseconds for demonstrating alcohol stress reliever properties that are associated with the
reduction of attention resources. The study conducted a randomized trial control where they
recruited the healthy male and female’s social drinkers between the ages of 21 to 28 years via the
newspapers advertisements. one group were assigned to receive alcohol and other groups were
assigned to receive placebo for comparing the effect. Those participants who successfully
completed the initial phone screening were invited for the alcohol and research smoking
laboratory. Majority of the participants who took part in the study are European American, only
11% are African American and only very few participants. The study was conducted by
measuring cognitive performance. Therefore, participants were assigned to same alcohol
conditions and they seated in the table for the conversation where cameras were installed for
recording the facial expression of the participants. The result of the observational study