Alcohol consumption in university students: the role of reasons for drinking, coping strategies, expectancies, and personality traits

Williams, Ann Marie; Clark, David

doi:10.1016/s0306-4603(97)80066-4

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“…Armitage, 2003;Conner et al, 2003). Given the links between motives and attitudes (Abbey et al, 1993;Read et al, 2003;Williams & Clark, 1998), widespread ambivalence toward alcohol, and the fact that many disincentives for drinking are also incentives, it may be important to focus on uncomplicated motives for not drinking. Various models of health behaviour would argue that emphasising such 'negative' motives is an important part of the process of behaviour change (Fishbein & Ajzen, 1972;Prochaska, DiClimente & Norcross, 1992;Rosenstock, 1974).…”

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“…Fishbein & Ajzen, 1972;Edwards, 1954), outcome expectancies and motives are important correlates of drinking behaviour. Outcome expectancies (see Table 1) distinguish between drinkers and abstainers (Leigh & Stacy, 2004), and are significantly related to drinkers' patterns of alcohol consumption (Bot, Engels & Knibbe, 2005;Dijkstra, Sweeney & Gebhardt, 2001;Farber, Khavari & Douglass, 1980;Hittner, 1997;Lee, Greely & Oei, 1999;Leigh & Stacy, 2004;Migneault, Pallonen & Velicer, 1997;Oei & Morawska, 2004;Stritzke & Butt, 2001;Williams & Clark, 1998). Table 1 Expectancies and motives share common variance: motives may mediate the link between expectancies and behaviour (Abbey, Smith & Scott, 1993;Read, Wood, Kahler, Maddock & Palfai, 2003;Williams & Clark, 1998).…”

Section: Expectancies and Motivesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Young men's ambivalence toward alcohol

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2007

Social Science & Medicine

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Section: Expectancies and Motivesmentioning

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Young men's ambivalence toward alcohol

Visser¹,

Smith²

2007

Social Science & Medicine

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“…Individuals match the alcohol use of a warm and sociable model more than that of a cold or distant model [80,81] and the perceived behaviours of valued peers are more influential on personal use than those of acquaintances or strangers [82]. Regarding social cognitions, expectancies of social facilitation or pleasure [66,[83][84][85][86][87] and social assertiveness [88][89][90] are consistently related to increase social drinking in college students. In addition, college students with low drink refusal self-efficacy also exhibit higher levels of alcohol use [91][92][93][94].…”

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How the quality of peer relationships influences college alcohol use

Borsari

Carey

2006

Drug and Alcohol Review

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Peer relationships are consistently linked to alcohol use in college students. However, this disparate literature often reveals contradictory findings regarding the precise mechanisms of peer influence. In this review, we use an organisational framework based on social learning theory (SLT) to demonstrate how the quality of peer relationships may influence personal alcohol use. We propose that the quality of peer relationships enhance the influence of social reinforcement, modelling and cognitive processes on personal alcohol use. Research indicates that the quality of peer relationships influences drinking via three pathways: the lack or breakdown of quality peer relationships, alcohol use being an integral part of peer interactions, and if peers disapprove of alcohol use or do not drink. This conceptualisation of peer influence informs the consistent finding of gender differences in college student drinking. Limitations of the reviewed research include reliance on cross-sectional surveys, self-report and homogeneous populations. Future directions for research on quality peer relationships involve detailed longitudinal assessment and the application of advanced statistical methods.

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“…The recent motivational models of drug use propose that outcome expectancies mediate between antecedents like personality and drug-use behavior, including alcohol use ( Williams & Clark, 1998 ), marijuana use ( Vangsness, Bry, & LaBouvie, 2004 ), and cocaine use ( Stacy, Newcomb, & Bentler, 1995 ). In other words, these models imply that expectancies might be a fi nal common pathway to drug use through which personality traits exert their infl uences.…”

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Smoking outcome expectancies mediate the association between sensation seeking, peer smoking, and smoking among young adolescents

Urbán

2009

Nicotine &Amp; Tobacco Research

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Background: Sensation seeking is a strong correlate of smoking among adolescents, yet the research on mediators of this association is not well established. The proposed model of the present study includes antecedent variables (sensation seeking), mediators (perceived peer smoking, outcome expectancies including negative consequences, positive reinforcement, negative reinforcement, and appetite-and-weight control), and one outcome variable (smoking cigarettes during the past 30 days).Methods: Self-reported data obtained from Hungarian highschool students (ninth grade, N = 2,565, mean age 15.3 years, SD = 0.56) were analyzed with structural equation modeling. Before testing of the main model, the construct validity of mediators (outcome expectancy scales) was supported with confi rmatory factor analysis (CFA) and structural equation modeling. The fi nal model was tested with structural equation modeling, and the goodness-of-fi t indices and the proportion of direct and indirect effects were analyzed.Results: Our mediational model had an excellent model fi t, and this study supported both the proposed sensation seeking → positive and negative reinforcement → smoking behavior pathways and sensation seeking → perceived peer smoking → positive and negative reinforcement → smoking behavior pathways. The total indirect effect explains 76% of sensation seeking and smoking association. Results support the notion that positive and negative reinforcement expectancies mediate between sensation seeking and smoking. Discussion:Results support the notion that perceived peer smoking, positive and negative reinforcement expectancies mediate between sensation seeking and smoking.

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Alcohol consumption in university students: the role of reasons for drinking, coping strategies, expectancies, and personality traits

Cited by 83 publications

References 15 publications

Young men's ambivalence toward alcohol

Young men's ambivalence toward alcohol

How the quality of peer relationships influences college alcohol use

Smoking outcome expectancies mediate the association between sensation seeking, peer smoking, and smoking among young adolescents

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