Department of Educational Psychology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA.
Department of Statistics, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, USA.
J Am Coll Health. 2022 Aug-Sep;70(6):1624-1633. doi: 10.1080/07448481.2020.1817033. Epub 2020 Oct 13.
Substance use is a public health concern and cross-sectional studies have found that impulsivity and drinking motives influence substance use in emerging adults. Despite these findings, longitudinal studies with nuanced measures of impulsivity and drinking motives are needed. The current study investigated the three-year relationship between impulsivity-related traits, drinking motives, sex, and drinking outcomes in a sample of 509 college students (47.47% male; 81% White). The effects of impulsivity traits and drinking motives on problematic drinking outcomes were evaluated using linear mixed effects models. The results confirmed the hypothesized relationship between traits of impulsivity, drinking motives, and alcohol outcomes over time. Further, sex significantly interacted with drinking motives longitudinally in its relationship with alcohol use outcomes. These results indicate that intervention efforts may need to be tailored to specific individual attributes to target direct correlates of alcohol use behavior to increase effectiveness.
物质使用是一个公共卫生关注点,横断面研究发现冲动性和饮酒动机影响成年早期人群的物质使用。尽管有这些发现,但仍需要使用细致的冲动性和饮酒动机测量方法进行纵向研究。本研究调查了 509 名大学生(47.47%为男性;81%为白人)样本中,冲动性相关特质、饮酒动机、性别与饮酒结果之间三年的关系。使用线性混合效应模型评估了冲动特质和饮酒动机对问题性饮酒结果的影响。结果证实了冲动特质、饮酒动机和酒精结果之间随时间变化的假设关系。此外,性别在与酒精使用结果的关系中与饮酒动机呈纵向显著交互作用。这些结果表明,干预措施可能需要根据特定的个体属性进行定制,以针对酒精使用行为的直接相关因素,提高干预效果。