Sonia M. Shah
Louisiana State University
9 Papers
30 Citations
Sonia M. Shah is an academic researcher from Louisiana State University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Cannabis & Social anxiety. The author has an hindex of 7, co-authored 9 publications.
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Effects of a brief mindfulness intervention on negative affect and urge to drink among college student drinkers
Christine Vinci,MacKenzie R. Peltier,Sonia M. Shah,Jessica Kinsaul,Krystal Waldo,Megan A. McVay,Megan A. McVay,Amy L. Copeland +7 more
TL;DR: Results indicated that the mindfulness intervention increased state mindfulness and relaxation, and decreased NA immediately following the mindfulness Intervention, however, the Mindfulness intervention did not influence responses to NA induction on any of the outcome variables at T3.
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Examination of trait impulsivity on the response to a brief mindfulness intervention among college student drinkers.
Christine Vinci,MacKenzie R. Peltier,Krystal Waldo,Jessica Kinsaul,Sonia M. Shah,Scott F. Coffey,Amy L. Copeland +6 more
TL;DR: It is suggested that level and subscale of impulsivity matter with regard to how a participant will respond to a mindfulness versus relaxation intervention, and that negative urgency was positively associated with urge to drink following the mindfulness intervention.
Cannabis Use Frequency and Use-Related Impairment among African American and White Users: The Impact of Cannabis Use Motives
TL;DR: Moves for cannabis use should be contexualised in the context of race, as race interacted with social, coping, and conformity motives to predict cannabis-related impairment such that these motives were positively related to cannabis impairment among African-American, but not White, participants.
Fitting in and feeling fine: Conformity and coping motives differentially mediate the relationship between social anxiety and drinking problems for men and women.
Julia D. Buckner,Sonia M. Shah +1 more
TL;DR: Findings support prior work indicating that socially anxious men and women may use alcohol differently and provide unique data on the importance of drinking to cope with anxiety specifically among socially anxious women.
Dysphoria and smoking among treatment seeking smokers: the role of smoking-related inflexibility/avoidance
Julia D. Buckner,Samantha G. Farris,Michael J. Zvolensky,Sonia M. Shah,Adam M. Leventhal,Jennifer A. Minnix,Norman B. Schmidt +6 more
TL;DR: Dysphoria was indirectly, positively related to perceived barriers, cessation problems, negative reinforcement smoking expectancies, and motivation to quit indirectly through higher levels of AIS, which may explain a wide range of clinically-relevant smoking processes.