Drinking Motives as Mediators of the Associations Between Alcohol Expectancies and Risky Drinking Behaviors Among High School Students

Tyne, Kathryne Van; Zamboanga, Byron L.; Ham, Lindsay S.; Olthuis, Janine V.; Pole, Nnamdi

doi:10.1007/s10608-011-9400-0

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“…For example, Cooper et al (2008) demonstrated that coping motives for alcohol use in adolescence predicted adulthood alcohol use among African Americans, whereas enhancement motives predicted alcohol use overtime among Whites. As enhancement motives have been shown to mediate the relationship between positive social expectancies and alcohol use among adolescents (Read, Wood, Kahler, Maddock, & Palfai, 2003; Tyne, Zamboanga, Ham, Olthuis, & Pole, 2012), it may follow that positive social expectancies are not related to use among African American youth because their alcohol use is driven by negative affect coping rather than desires to enhance social experiences.…”

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Racial differences in the link between alcohol expectancies and adolescent drinking

Banks

Zapolski

2017

Addictive Behaviors

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Introduction Alcohol expectancies are important determinants and predictors of adolescent alcohol use. Research with African Americans has shown that the endorsement of positive alcohol expectancies differs from that of Whites during childhood and predicts different alcohol outcomes during young adulthood. However, limited research has explored racial differences in the relationship between expectancy endorsement and alcohol use in school-aged adolescents. The current study examines the effect of White or African American race on the relationship between positive alcohol expectancies and alcohol use. Methods Participants were 104 adolescents ages 12–18 who identified as either non-Hispanic White or non-Hispanic African American. Participants completed self-report measures of alcohol consumption and positive social alcohol expectancies. Results Preliminary analyses revealed no racial differences in alcohol expectancies or consumption. However, race moderated the relationship between alcohol expectancies and alcohol use such that more positive expectancies predicted alcohol use among White youth, but not African American youth. Conclusions These results suggest that alcohol expectancies, which were thought to be important mediators of the relationship between social and personality factors and adolescent alcohol use may not be as impactful for African Americans. Future research should focus on identifying factors posing unique risk for alcohol consumption in this population.

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Racial differences in the link between alcohol expectancies and adolescent drinking

Banks

Zapolski

2017

Addictive Behaviors

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“…Moreover, these studies demonstrate partial support for mediational pathways from hypothetical positive evaluations (i.e., the importance of the positive effects of drinking) to drinking behavior and ultimately to alcohol problems among adolescents (D'Amico et al, 2002). In another cross-sectional study (Van Tyne, Zamboanga, Ham, Olthuis, & Pole, 2012), more positive hypothetical evaluations of consequences items were associated with higher levels of hazardous alcohol use in adolescents age 14–18, controlling for drinking motives, expectancy outcomes, and drinking game participation. In longitudinal research, Fulton et al (2012) found that higher outcome liking scores (i.e., hypothetical evaluations) from the first year of the study were associated with both higher initial levels and an increased rate of change in drinking over three years.…”

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Hypothetical evaluations of positive and negative alcohol consequences in adolescents across various levels of drinking experience.

Merrill

Lopez-Vergara

Barnett

et al. 2016

Psychology of Addictive Behaviors

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Research supports the importance of the subjective evaluation of alcohol-related consequences, and theory suggests that these evaluations may depend on one’s prior experience. The goal of the present study was to understand how adolescents subjectively evaluate the potential negative and positive consequences of drinking and to test the hypothesis that evaluations differ as a function of personal experience with alcohol use and consequences. Participants were 697 adolescents (55% female) who completed online surveys assessing lifetime drinking experience and hypothetical evaluations of 13 negative and 9 positive consequences. Never having consumed a full drink of alcohol (vs having consumed a full drink, but not having negative consequences) was significantly associated with higher mean negative evaluations and lower mean positive evaluations. Those who had a full drink (vs. those who had not) rated close to half of the negative consequence items as significantly less bothersome, and all of the positive consequences as significantly more enjoyable. However, there was little evidence in this sample that evaluations differ between drinkers with and without experience with negative consequences. Overall, findings suggest that youth who have experience with simply consuming alcohol may place more value on the positive and less value on some of the negative consequences of drinking, which has the potential to impact decisions to continue to drink. Longitudinal research uncovering the direction of evaluation-experience effects and mechanisms other than consequence experience, are essential next steps.

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“…Adolescents were recruited from three Belgian secondary schools. Because drinking motives can only be assessed in people who have actually consumed alcohol (Van Tyne et al 2011), the adolescents who never drank alcohol in the past 12 months (13.3%) were excluded from the analyses, resulting in a sample of 268 'drinking adolescents'. This approach is consistent with other studies on drinking motives (e.g., Mezquita et al 2010;Stewart et al 2001).…”

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Temperament and Problematic Alcohol Use in Adolescence: an Examination of Drinking Motives as Mediators

Willem

Bijttebier

Claes

et al. 2012

J Psychopathol Behav Assess

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The present study investigated the associations between temperamental reactivity, drinking motives, alcohol consumption and alcohol-related consequences. Furthermore, it investigated whether drinking motives mediate the relations between temperamental reactivity and the alcohol use variables. The sample consisted of 188 adolescents (64.9% boys) between the ages of 13-20 years (M age 016.9, SD01.32). Results revealed that the temperament factors of high BAS fun seeking and high negative affectivity were related to alcohol consumption and alcohol-related consequences respectively. Furthermore, high social and enhancement motives and low conformity motives were associated with alcohol consumption, whereas high coping-depression motives were associated with alcohol-related consequences. Finally, the relation between BAS fun seeking and alcohol consumption was mediated by enhancement and social motives and the association between negative affectivity and alcohol-related consequences was mediated by copingdepression motives. These results highlight the importance of focusing on temperament profiles and their associated drinking motives in the prevention and intervention of alcohol use problems among adolescents.

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Drinking Motives as Mediators of the Associations Between Alcohol Expectancies and Risky Drinking Behaviors Among High School Students

Cited by 33 publications

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Racial differences in the link between alcohol expectancies and adolescent drinking

Racial differences in the link between alcohol expectancies and adolescent drinking

Hypothetical evaluations of positive and negative alcohol consequences in adolescents across various levels of drinking experience.

Temperament and Problematic Alcohol Use in Adolescence: an Examination of Drinking Motives as Mediators

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