Impacts of Drinking Culture and Drinking Motives on Problem Drinking among College Students

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (6) ◽  
pp. 2817-2828
Author(s):  
Nam-Hee Kim
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Problem Drinking ◽  
Drinking Motives ◽  
Drinking Culture

Personal and Social Drinking Motives, Family Drinking History, and Problems Associated with Drinking in Two University Samples

1992 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 195-202 ◽  
Author(s):  
John R. Bradley ◽  
Roderick S. Carman ◽  
Allen Petree
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Internal Consistency ◽  
Cross Validation ◽  
Problem Drinking ◽  
Drinking Motives ◽  
Multiple Regressions ◽  
Social Drinking ◽  
Drinking History ◽  
High Internal Consistency ◽  
Drinking Outcomes

Two drinking motives scales, Negative Personal (NP) motives and Positive Social (PS) motives, derived from Mulford and Miller's Definitions of Alcohol Scales, and a Negative Family Models (NFM) scales designed to reflect family modeling of drinking-related problems were evaluated for internal consistency and association with college students' scores on a drinking-related Social Complications (SOCCOMP) scale. In both initial ( n = 553) and cross-validation ( n = 293) samples, all four scales demonstrated high internal consistency. Multiple regressions of NP, PS, and NFM scales, together with measures of quantity and frequency of drinking on SOCCOMP for both samples, yielded highly significant multiple R's, confirming the additive association of these measures with problem drinking outcomes. An unanticipated finding of positive associations between PS drinking motive and SOCCOMP is reported.

Coping, Drinking Motives, Goal Attainment Expectancies and Family Models in Relation to Alcohol Use among College Students

1996 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 243-255 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephanie B. Karwacki ◽  
John R. Bradley
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Alcohol Use ◽  
Goal Attainment ◽  
Problem Drinking ◽  
Drinking Motives ◽  
Academic Goals ◽  
Coping Responses ◽  
Self Blame ◽  
Positive Correlations ◽  
Family Models

Associations between coping responses, drinking motivations, expectations of meeting social and academic goals, and family of origin problem drinking and measures of college students' quantity/frequency of alcohol use and social complications of alcohol use were investigated in a sample of 218 college students. Positive associations were found between “emotion-focused” forms of coping such as detachment and the criterion measures, whereas “problem-focused coping” was not significantly associated with quantity/frequency of alcohol use or drinking complications. Positive correlations were also found between drinking motives, goal attainment expectancies and family models measures and the criterion measures. Regression models constructed for alcohol quantity/frequency and drinking complications implicated the total number of drinking motives, family models of problem drinking and the coping strategy of self-blame as strongly related to criterion measures. Positive social drinking motives and coping by seeking social support were implicated as possible protective factors.

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