Reasons for Drinking Alcohol: Their Relationship to Psychosocial Variables and Alcohol Consumption

Smith, Mary Jo; Abbey, Antonia; Scott, Richard

doi:10.3109/10826089309039662

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“…Unlike previous findings with non-Maori samples, males were not more likely than females to drink to enhance mood or relax (Kairouz et al 2002), nor were females more likely to drink to relieve undesirable states (Baer 2002). Negative reinforcement motivation was associated with heavy and less frequent drinking, and drinking alone, as found in other studies (Baer 2002;Carey and Correia 1997;Cooper 1994;Cox and Klinger 1988;Smith et al 1993). Heavy drinkers might initially get relief from emotional problems and boredom, might feel guilty about their drinking behaviour and try to abstain.…”

Section: Drinking Motivation and Mental Healthcontrasting

confidence: 77%

Maori Identification, Drinking Motivation and Mental Health

Clarke

Ebbett

2009

Int J Ment Health Addiction

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Research examining the relationships among Maori cultural identification, drinking behaviour, drinking motivation and mental health is almost non-existent. A review of literature suggests that stronger Maori identification could be associated with lower alcohol consumption on a typical occasion, less frequent drinking, drinking to enhance mood or sociability (positive reinforcement) and better mental health. Maori identification and mental health would be related inversely to negative reinforcement (reduce aversive and undesirable states) and to negative affect (feeling angry, aggressive). The convenience sample consisted of 113 male and 334 female Maori aged 18-80 years (M=33.88, SD=11.43). Participants completed an online or mail questionnaire which included demographic information, Maori identification, drinking behaviour and motives, and the Mental Health Inventory. Results showed that Maori identification was significantly correlated with frequency of drinking but not with motivation or mental health. After controlling for amount of drinking and relevant demographic variables, regression analysis showed that motivation uniquely accounted for a total of 19% of the variance in mental health scores. The findings suggest that relationships between Maori identification, mental health, drinking behaviour and motivation are complex and worthy of further study.

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Section: Drinking Motivation and Mental Healthcontrasting

confidence: 77%

Maori Identification, Drinking Motivation and Mental Health

Clarke

Ebbett

2009

Int J Ment Health Addiction

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“…Drawing on social learning theories, "escape" drinking has been conceptualized as drinking for emotional regulation (Lang et al, 1999), drinking to cope with distress Cooper et al, 1988;Smith et al, 1993), and tension-reduction drinking motives (Brown et al, 1980;Leigh and Stacy, 1993). Several studies report associations between the tendency to use alcohol to escape, avoid, or otherwise regulate unpleasant emotions and both alcohol use and alcohol-use disorders Carpenter and Hasin, 1999;Martin et al, 1992).…”

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Modeling Cognitive Influences on Drinking and Alcohol Problems

Greenfield

Harford

Tam

2009

J. Stud. Alcohol Drugs

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ABSTRACT. Objective:We explored the relationships between two domains of alcohol-related cognitions (expectations and reasons for drinking) and their associations with alcohol consumption and alcohol dependence. It is hypothesized that alcohol-related cognitions will relate directly to drinking behaviors and indirectly to alcohol dependence. Method: Data came from the 1995 National Alcohol Survey, which included black and Hispanic oversamples. The analysis was restricted to 2,817 respondents who reported alcohol consumption at least once in the past year. Path analysis, including key demographic factors, modeled the associations between expectations, reasons for drinking, frequency of heavy drinking, and alcohol dependence. Results: Exploratory and confi rmatory factor analyses yielded separate latent variables for expectations (positive and negative), reasons for drinking (social and escape), frequency of heavy alcohol use, and alcohol-dependence symptoms. Associations between positive expectations and frequency of heavy drinking were partially mediated by social and escape reasons for drinking. Associations between negative expectancies and alcohol dependence were partially mediated by escape reasons for drinking. Associations between reasons for drinking and alcohol dependence were partially mediated by the frequency of heavy drinking. Associations between demographic variables and alcohol dependence were mediated by the frequency of heavy drinking; black race and Hispanic ethnicity also showed additional direct effects on dependence. Conclusions: Alcohol-related cognitions exhibit complex associations with drinking behaviors and alcohol dependence. Implications for research on ethnic minority health disparities and public policy are discussed. (J. Stud. Alcohol Drugs 70: [78][79][80][81][82][83][84][85][86] 2009)

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“…Since social drinkers (Carrigan et al, 1998;Gire, 2002), enhancement drinkers (Kairouz et al, 2002;Lo & Globetti, 2000;Smith et al, 1993;Stewart et al, 1996), coping drinkers (Cooper, 1994;Gire, 2002), and conformity drinkers (Gire, 2002) tend to be male, it was not surprising that men showed to be more motivated by enhancement, coping, conformity and social motives for alcohol use than women in this study, too.…”

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Motivation for Substance Use: Why Do People Use Alcohol, Tobacco and Marijuana?

Tkalić

Sučić

Dević

2013

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The research aimed to explore the salience of different motives for substance use among alcohol, tobacco and marijuana users, and to investigate the difference in motives' salience with regard to frequency of substance use and respondents' socio-demographic characteristics. Data were collected among subsamples of alcohol, tobacco and marijuana users drawn from the representative sample of Croatian citizens (N = 4756). Respondents assessed four types, and for marijuana use five types of motives for each substance use (enhancement, social, conformity, coping, and expansion). The enhancement motives were assessed as the most, and conformity motives as the least salient motives among all groups of substance users. Generally, enhanced salience of motives was related to the frequency of all types of substance use. While age had significant effect on the salience of social motives for tobacco use, gender and marital status had significant effect on the salience of all motives for alcohol use, and age had significant effect only on the salience of enhancement and social motives for alcohol use. Among marijuana users, only marital status had significant effect on the salience of expansion motives for marijuana use. Results are discussed within the framework of motivational models for substance use.

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Reasons for Drinking Alcohol: Their Relationship to Psychosocial Variables and Alcohol Consumption

Cited by 68 publications

References 51 publications

Maori Identification, Drinking Motivation and Mental Health

Maori Identification, Drinking Motivation and Mental Health

Modeling Cognitive Influences on Drinking and Alcohol Problems

Motivation for Substance Use: Why Do People Use Alcohol, Tobacco and Marijuana?

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