Motivational pathways to alcohol use and abuse among Black and White adolescents.

Cooper, Melanie M.; Krull, Jennifer L.; Agocha, V. Bede; Flanagan, Mindy E.; Orcutt, Holly K.; Grabe, Shelly; Dermen, Kurt H.; Jackson, Maudette

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“…Moreover, adolescents most often drink for social and enjoyment reasons [28,51], and one may assume that drinking to relieve emotional distress is relatively more prevalent among older and more experienced drinkers. Indeed, Cooper et al's [52] longitudinal study showed that selfmedication motives for drinking were reported gradually more often during the transition from adolescence into early adulthood.…”

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Associations between emotional distress and heavy drinking among young people: A longitudinal study

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Norstrøm

2015

Drug and Alcohol Review

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IntroductionDepression has generally been found to be associated with heavy drinking and alcohol use disorders [1][2][3][4]. There is also evidence of a link between anxiety and extensive use of alcohol [5][6][7][8], but this association has been less extensively scrutinized and the findings seem less clear. Thus, some studies of young people report null-findings [9] or a link between anxiety and heavy drinking that is attributable to concurrent symptoms of depression and/or other confounding factors [10][11][12].The bulk of previous studies focus on severe forms of internalizing problems and harmful drinking, and have typically relied on diagnoses or other dichotomous measures. Obviously, such research may be of clinical significance, yet the findings do not necessarily apply to mild forms of emotional distress and non-pathological drinking [13]. To address subclinical conditions is important in its own right, not least because they may contribute to the total burden of harm and social cost at least as much as the clinical ones -simply by being far more prevalent.Furthermore, studies of adult samples predominate in the field, and the association between emotional distress and heavy drinking may be different among young people. The onset of drinking typically occurs in adolescence, and the consumption of alcohol and related harm escalate during the late teens and reaches a peak in early adulthood [14,15]. Problems related to mood and emotions also tend to increase in this period of life [16]. Moreover, it has been hypothesized that risk factors related to mental health may become increasingly important in influencing drinking behaviour as individuals approach adulthood, reflecting the challenges of leaving a protected environment, and entering an independent adult role [17].Indeed, a recent study showed that the association between depression and alcohol use disorders was stronger in early adulthood than in adolescence [18]. The present paper pursues this issue further by analysing four-wave panel data on less severe forms of emotional distress and heavy drinking from a general population study of young people.

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Associations between emotional distress and heavy drinking among young people: A longitudinal study

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Norstrøm

2015

Drug and Alcohol Review

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“…Last, we controlled for concurrent levels of individuals' motivation to drink to enhance positive emotions. Previous research has linked such motivation to drinking-related problems (e.g., Cooper et al, 2008), and analysis of the current data (Armeli et al, 2010) suggests a role of enhancement motivation in the link between negative affect and drinking level.…”

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Drinking to Cope Motivation as a Prospective Predictor of Negative Affect

Armeli

Sullivan

Tennen

2015

J. Stud. Alcohol Drugs

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ABSTRACT. Objective: Consistent with research indicating that drinking to cope (DTC) motivation might exacerbate negative affective states within or immediately proximal to discrete drinking episodes, we examined whether yearly deviations in more global levels of DTC motivation prospectively predicted depressive and anxious affect over several weeks. Method: College students (N = 521, 52% women) completed baseline measures of drinking motives, recent depression and anxiety symptoms, recent alcohol use, and alcohol use disorder symptoms on a secure website. Approximately 2 weeks after completing this survey, participants completed the 30-day daily diary portion of the study in which they reported on their current-day affective states. This yearly assessment burst in which participants completed a baseline survey and a daily diary assessment was repeated for 3 additional years. Results: We found that changes in DTC motivation were positively associated with changes in depressive and anxious affect in the subsequent month, after we controlled for changes in concurrent anxiety and depressive symptoms, drinking level, enhancement drinking motivation, and alcohol use disorder symptoms. Conclusions: Our findings are consistent with the notion that DTC motivation confers a unique vulnerability for emotion dysregulation, and that drinking for such reasons possibly prolongs or exacerbates negative affective states. (J. Stud. Alcohol Drugs, 76, 578-584, 2015)

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“…[11][12][13][14] A couple of longitudinal studies have also shown that drinking motives predict changes in alcohol use over time, e.g., higher enhancement motives predict an increase in RSOD 15,16 and higher enhancement or coping motives predict an increase in alcohol-related problems. [17][18][19] The theoretical model of drinking motives assumes that they also depend on reinforcement achieved through feedback loops from past drinking, 8,9,20 i.e., the experience of positive effects of drinking in a group is likely to encourage further drinking for social motives.…”

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Reciprocal Influences of Drinking Motives on Alcohol Use and Related Consequences: A Full Cross-Lagged Panel Study Among Young Adult Men

Labhart

Kuntsche

Wicki

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Behavioral Medicine

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Using a full cross-lagged model, this study investigates the extent to which drinking motives predict alcohol use and related consequences, and vice versa. At baseline and 15 months later, 4,575 men (mean age = 19.4) in Switzerland completed a questionnaire assessing drinking motives, average weekly consumption, risky single-occasion drinking, and alcohol-related consequences. Results indicated that social and enhancement motives more strongly influenced alcohol use over time than the other way round. Coping motives predicted an increase in alcoholrelated consequences, and vice versa. Higher social motives predicted an increase in coping motives while higher coping motives predicted a decrease in enhancement motives. These results suggest that social and enhancement motives amplify each other in early adulthood and predict increases in risky drinking. Structural measures aimed at reducing opportunities to engage in heavy drinking are recommended. Additionally, the detection of young adult men vulnerable to maladaptive coping behaviors appears important for alcohol prevention strategies.

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Motivational pathways to alcohol use and abuse among Black and White adolescents.

Cited by 144 publications

References 92 publications

Associations between emotional distress and heavy drinking among young people: A longitudinal study

Associations between emotional distress and heavy drinking among young people: A longitudinal study

Drinking to Cope Motivation as a Prospective Predictor of Negative Affect

Reciprocal Influences of Drinking Motives on Alcohol Use and Related Consequences: A Full Cross-Lagged Panel Study Among Young Adult Men

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