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Social influences in motivated drinking among college students.
Full Abstract
This study tested whether drinking motives mediate the relation between personality and alcohol use and whether these predictors affected drinking in these individuals' friends. College students and their friends participated in the study as dyads (n = 43 dyads, 86 participants). Each person completed surveys and a 28-day experience sampling protocol. Structural equation analyses found that (a) social motives mediated the relation between extraversion and alcohol outcomes, (b) coping motives mediated the relation between neuroticism and alcohol outcomes, and (c) enhancement motives mediated the relation between extraversion and alcohol outcomes. Moreover, young adults' alcohol use, but not their problem use, was influenced by their own drinking motives as well as the drinking motives of their best friends.
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Author/s: Hussong, Andrea M (AM);
Affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of North Carolina, CB#3270 Davie Hall, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599-3270, USA. hussong(-atsign-)unc.edu
Journal and publication information
Publication Type: Journal Article
Journal: Psychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors (Psychol Addict Behav), published in United States. (Language: eng)
Reference: 2003-Jun; vol 17 (issue 2) : pp 142-50
Dates: Created 2003/06/19; Completed 2003/07/28; Revised 2004/11/17;
PMID: 12814278, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 11/6/2008)
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