plays a mediating role in stress-related drinking, this conclusion remains invalid without the possibility of analyzing how drinking to cope interacts with gender and problem-focused coping. Second, the present study examined a homogeneous college sample with respect to age, social class, education, and race. This limits the generalizability of the findings. Several issues are raised by the present findings that could be addressed in future research. Perhaps most importantly, there is a need to determine which instruments provide the most accurate measurement of the constructs in question. This would create a standard set of instruments that could be universally applied in future investigations. Further investigation of negative expectancies would also be useful given the import of the expectancy for risk and aggression in the present data. Similarly, the linkages among the determinants in this model could be further clarified by examining the potential mediating role of drinking to cope. Ultimately, to elucidate the nature of stress-related drinking, other potential moderators (i.e., income, race, religion ) must also be investigated to provide a more stringent test of the stressor vulnerability model. In conclusion, these results indicate that the stressor vulnerability model of stress-related drinking as suggested by Cooper et al. (1992) is somewhat imprecise. A more refined model must pay closer attentionto the influence of drinking to cope and negative expectancies. ...
