Trager Bradley M, Napper Lucy E, Hatch Oliver J, Morgan Reed M, Boyle Sarah C, LaBrie Joseph W
Department of Psychology, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, California.
Department of Psychology, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
J Stud Alcohol Drugs. 2025 May;86(3):446-454. doi: 10.15288/jsad.24-00045. Epub 2024 Sep 16.
Previous work has investigated parents' reports of motives for communicating with their young adults about alcohol. Although parents' self-reported motives may predict intentions to communicate, young adults' perceptions of their parents' motives may be important for understanding young adults' responses to parental alcohol communication. The present study was conducted to explore college students' perceptions of their parents' motives for alcohol communication and to investigate whether perceptions of these motives predict changes in alcohol consumption and related consequences during the transition to college.
First-year college students ( = 306) participated in a longitudinal survey study. Baseline measures at pre-matriculation (Time 1) included assessments of student perceptions of their parents' motives for alcohol communication and covariates (e.g., perceived peer descriptive drinking norms, parental modeling and alcohol communication, and drinking and consequences). At a 1-month follow-up (Time 2), students reported on their alcohol use and consequences.
When we controlled for other predictors of college student drinking, results indicated that for each one-unit increase in perceived parental reactive communication motives, the incidence rate of typical weekly drinking increased by 9%, and heavy episodic drinking (HED) increased by 21%. Conversely, the incidence rate of HED decreased by 27% for each one-unit increase in perceived maternal family history communication motives.
These findings suggest that college students' perceptions of their parents' motives for alcohol communication can significantly influence their drinking behavior during the transition to college.
以往的研究探讨了父母关于与他们的成年子女交流饮酒问题的动机报告。虽然父母自我报告的动机可能预测交流意图，但成年子女对父母动机的认知对于理解成年子女对父母饮酒交流的反应可能很重要。本研究旨在探讨大学生对父母饮酒交流动机的认知，并调查这些动机的认知是否能预测向大学过渡期间饮酒量及相关后果的变化。
306名大学一年级学生参与了一项纵向调查研究。入学前（时间1）的基线测量包括对学生对父母饮酒交流动机的认知以及协变量（如感知到的同伴描述性饮酒规范、父母的示范和饮酒交流，以及饮酒和后果）的评估。在1个月的随访（时间2）中，学生报告了他们的饮酒情况及后果。
当我们控制了大学生饮酒的其他预测因素后，结果表明，在感知到的父母反应性交流动机每增加一个单位时，典型每周饮酒的发生率增加9%，重度间歇性饮酒（HED）增加21%。相反，在感知到的母亲家族史交流动机每增加一个单位时，HED的发生率下降27%。
这些发现表明，大学生对父母饮酒交流动机的认知在向大学过渡期间会显著影响他们的饮酒行为。
