School of Psychology, Fairleigh Dickinson University, 1000 River Road, Teaneck, NJ 07666, United States.
Alcohol Research Center, UConn Health, 263 Farmington Avenue, Farmington, CT 06030, United States.
Addict Behav. 2020 Dec;111:106568. doi: 10.1016/j.addbeh.2020.106568. Epub 2020 Jul 21.
Evidence suggests that drinking cope (DTC) motivation becomes a greater risk factor for drinking-related problems as individuals progress through young adulthood. To test this, we examined how the effect of DTC motivation on a variety of drinking-related problems, controlling for drinking level, changed as individuals made the transition from college life to post-college life. We also included social, enhancement and conformity motives in our models to examine how their unique effects on drinking-related problems change across this developmental period. College students (N = 939) reported their drinking motives, drinking level, and drinking-related problems during college and again approximately five years later (post-college). Results showed that DTC motivation became a stronger positive predictor for drinking-related interpersonal problems, but none of the other problem types. Conformity motivation became a stronger positive predictor for five out of the six problem types examined and some evidence indicated that social motives become more protective post-college, showing unique negative associations with certain problems. Our findings highlight the need to better understand how the effects of drinking motives on distinct types of drinking-related problems might change as individuals advance through early adulthood.
有证据表明，随着个体进入青年期，出于自我药疗（DTC）的饮酒动机成为导致饮酒相关问题的更大风险因素。为了验证这一点，我们考察了 DTC 动机对各种饮酒相关问题的影响，这些问题通过控制饮酒量来进行预测，这种影响在个体从大学生活过渡到大学生活后会发生怎样的变化。我们还在模型中纳入了社交、增强和从众动机，以考察这些动机对饮酒相关问题的独特影响在这一发展阶段如何变化。大学生（N=939）在大学期间和大约五年后（毕业后）报告了他们的饮酒动机、饮酒量和饮酒相关问题。结果表明，DTC 动机成为饮酒相关人际问题的更强有力的正向预测因素，但对其他任何问题类型都没有影响。从众动机成为五种以上六种被考察的问题类型的更强有力的正向预测因素，并且有一些证据表明，社交动机在毕业后更具保护作用，与某些问题呈现出独特的负相关关系。我们的研究结果强调了需要更好地理解随着个体进入成年早期，饮酒动机对不同类型的饮酒相关问题的影响如何发生变化。
