Direct and indirect effects of alcohol expectancies through drinking motives on alcohol outcomes among students in Vietnam

Binge drinking: Health impact, prevalence, correlates and interventions

“…Like personality traits, there is consistent evidence that drinking motives mediate the link between alcohol expectancies and binge drinking frequency (Diep et al, 2016;Kuntsche, Knibbe, Gmel, & Engels, 2007;Kuntsche, Wiers, Janssen, & Gmel, 2010). This would suggest that drinking motives constitute a final common pathway to binge drinking, i.e.…”

“…It appears that younger adolescents' binge drinking occurs more often in conjunction with social factors and rewards than it does for older adolescents, who are more likely to drink to change internal emotional states . Among young adults in Vietnam, the relationship between binge drinking and coping motives was much stronger than the relationship to enhancement and social motives (Diep, Schelleman-Offermans, Kuntsche, De Vries, & Knibbe, 2016).…”

Beer for “brohood”: A laboratory simulation of masculinity confirmation through alcohol use behaviors in men.

“…Research examining conformity motives for use, using alcohol in an effort to fit in with a group, as introduced by Cooper (1994), is mixed. Research exists to suggest that men are particularly more likely than women to report drinking for conformity motives, or to fit in with a group (Buckner & Shah, 2015;Kuntsche & Labhart, 2013;Williams & Ricciardelli, 1999), but is met with contradictory research which suggests that men often deny drinking for conformity motives (Kuntsche, Wicki, Windlin, Roberts, & Gabhainn, et al, 2015) and that conformity drinking does not reliably predict increased use for men or women (e.g., Lammers, Kuntsche, Engels, Wiers, & Kleinjan, 2013;Diep, Kuntsche, Schelleman-Offermans, Vries, & Knibbe, 2016). It is possible that this vein of research may be mixed because of the lack of specificity about the masculine in-group or may be related to the influence of differing gender norms or expectations most appropriate in different situations or groups that the conformity motive conceptualization does not address.…”

Validation of the Adolescent Drinking Expectancy Questionnaire and development of a short form

“…Drawn from Social Cognitive Theory , alcohol expectancies are the perceived outcomes of drinking . Another mechanism of adolescent alcohol use is drinking motives , which can mediate the effect of alcohol expectancies on alcohol use . However, alcohol expectancies are developed from both vicarious and experiential learning whereas drinking motives apply exclusively to pre‐existing drinkers.…”