Poor adjustment to college life mediates the relationship between drinking motives and alcohol consequences: A look at college adjustment, drinking motives, and drinking outcomes
Poor adjustment to college life mediates the relationship between drinking motives and alcohol consequences: A look at college adjustment, drinking motives, and drinking outcomes
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DOI：
10.1016/j.addbeh.2011.11.018
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发表时间：
2012-04-01
影响因子：
4.4
通讯作者：
Prenovost, Katherine
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作者：
LaBrie, Joseph W.;Ehret, Phillip J.;Prenovost, Katherine
当前的研究考察了饮酒动机和酒精相关结果之间的关系是否由大学适应介导。参与者（N=253）完成了一项在线调查，评估了饮酒动机、积极和消极的大学适应程度、典型的每周饮酒情况以及过去一个月与酒精有关的负面后果。结构方程模型检验了大学生的大学适应、饮酒动机和每周饮酒行为对酒精的负面影响。负性大学适应在应对饮酒动机与饮酒后果之间起中介作用。积极的大学适应与饮酒或后果无关。正强化饮酒动机（即社会性动机和增强性动机）不仅直接预测后果，而且在周饮酒量和负性大学适应程度中起部分中介作用。性别模型显示，男性在饮酒方面表现出更多的可变性，他们的积极强化饮酒动机与每周饮酒的关系更强。女性的独特之处在于，应对动机直接或间接（通过负向调整）与后果相关。这些发现表明，寻求减少酒精相关风险的干预措施可能希望纳入关于减少压力和增加与更好的大学适应相关的其他因素的策略的讨论。(C) 2011 Elsevier Ltd.版权所有。
The current study examined whether the relationship between drinking motives and alcohol-related outcomes was mediated by college adjustment. Participants (N=253) completed an online survey that assessed drinking motives, degree of both positive and negative college adjustment, typical weekly drinking, and past month negative alcohol-related consequences. Structural equation modeling examined negative alcohol consequences as a function of college adjustment, drinking motives, and weekly drinking behavior in college students. Negative college adjustment mediated the relationship between coping drinking motives and drinking consequences. Positive college adjustment was not related to alcohol consumption or consequences. Positive reinforcement drinking motives (i.e. social and enhancement) not only directly predicted consequences, but were partially mediated by weekly drinking and degree of negative college adjustment. Gender specific models revealed that males exhibited more variability in drinking and their positive reinforcement drinking motives were more strongly associated with weekly drinking. Uniquely for females, coping motives were directly and indirectly (via negative adjustment) related to consequences. These findings suggest that interventions which seek to decrease alcohol-related risk may wish to incorporate discussions about strategies for decreasing stress and increasing other factors associated with better college adjustment. (C) 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.