Neeley Kayla M, Stanley Taylor B, Correia Christopher J
Department of Psychological Sciences, Auburn University.
Psychol Addict Behav. 2023 Sep;37(6):823-828. doi: 10.1037/adb0000938. Epub 2023 May 25.
Colleges maintain alcohol policies in response to student alcohol misuse, and sanctions for violating these policies often mandate students to attend alcohol education and/or counseling (Anderson & Gadaleto, 2021). Electronic Checkup to Go (e-CHUG) is a widely used online motivational intervention program that provides feedback to college students to encourage them to alter their drinking behaviors (eCheckup to Go, 2021). While measures included in e-CHUG have clear clinical utility, their psychometric properties have not been evaluated. The present study was designed to evaluate the factor structure and validity of the 18-item drinking motives scale included in the intervention.
Participants were 3,546 students from a large public university who were mandated to complete e-CHUG (58% male, = 19.06, = 1.35) between 2013 and 2021. Students completed a battery of measures, including questions regarding alcohol consumption, drinking motives and consequences, and the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT).
An exploratory factor analysis was conducted to investigate the structure of the drinking motives scale. Two factors were retained: The first factor represented coping motives, and the second factor represented a mixture of enhancement and social motives. Hierarchical regression analyses explored the associations between the retained drinking motives factors and alcohol-related variables. Both coping motives and enhancement/social motives positively and uniquely predicted drinking consequences and AUDIT scores.
This study provides support for the construct and incremental validity of e-CHUG's drinking motives measure and could have important implications for the consideration of drinking motives during e-CHUG interventions. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved).
高校制定酒精政策以应对学生酒精滥用问题，违反这些政策的处罚措施通常要求学生参加酒精教育和/或咨询（安德森和加达莱托，2021年）。电子自助检查（e-CHUG）是一个广泛使用的在线动机干预项目，它为大学生提供反馈，鼓励他们改变饮酒行为（电子自助检查，2021年）。虽然e-CHUG中包含的措施具有明确的临床效用，但其心理测量特性尚未得到评估。本研究旨在评估该干预措施中包含的18项饮酒动机量表的因子结构和效度。
参与者是来自一所大型公立大学的3546名学生，他们在2013年至2021年期间被要求完成e-CHUG（58%为男性，平均年龄 = 19.06岁，标准差 = 1.35）。学生们完成了一系列测量，包括关于酒精消费、饮酒动机和后果的问题，以及酒精使用障碍识别测试（AUDIT）。
进行了探索性因子分析以研究饮酒动机量表的结构。保留了两个因子：第一个因子代表应对动机，第二个因子代表强化和社交动机的混合。分层回归分析探讨了保留的饮酒动机因子与酒精相关变量之间的关联。应对动机和强化/社交动机都正向且独特地预测了饮酒后果和AUDIT分数。
本研究为e-CHUG饮酒动机测量的结构效度和增量效度提供了支持，并且可能对在e-CHUG干预期间考虑饮酒动机具有重要意义。（PsycInfo数据库记录（c）2023美国心理学会，保留所有权利）
