Examining the role of drinking motives in college student alcohol use and problems.

Abstract

A motivational model of alcohol involvement (M. L. Cooper, M. R. Frone, M. Russell, & P. Mudar, 1995) was replicated and extended by incorporating social antecedents and motives and by testing this model cross-sectionally and longitudinally in a sample of college students. Participants (N = 388) completed a questionnaire battery assessing alcohol use and problems, alcohol expectancies, sensation seeking, negative affect, social influences, and drinking motives. Associations among psychosocial antecedents, drinking motives, and alcohol involvement differed from those found by M. L. Cooper et al. (1995). These findings point to the importance of social influences and of positive reinforcement motives but not to the centrality of drinking motives in this population.

Fraternity and sorority involvement, social influences, and alcohol use among college students: A prospective examination.

“…Some of these data have been published previously in Read, Wood, Maddock, and Palfai (2003) and in Read, Wood, and Capone (2005). This study was supported, in part, by a grant from the Alcoholic Beverage Medical Research Foundation to Mark D. Wood.…”

Young men's ambivalence toward alcohol

“…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).…”

“…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). Like expectancies, motives predict alcohol use (Abbey et al, 1993;Cooper, 1994;Maggs & Schulenberg, 1998).…”

A developmental study of heavy episodic drinking among college students: the role of psychosocial and behavioral protective and risk factors.

“…Among recent studies that have had an explanatory focus, most have concentrated on proximal factors, including perception of norms about drinking (Perkins, 2003;Perkins and Wechsler, 1996), motives for drinking (Galen and Rogers, 2004;Read et al, 2003), and-especially, alcohol expectancies (e.g., Aarons et al, 2003;Del Boca et al, 2004; Gotham et al, 1997;Greenbaum et al, 2005;Sher et al, 1996;Wood et al, 2001). A comprehensive understanding of developmental change in college drinking has not yet emerged from the literature.…”