Personal vs Social Motivations of Undergraduates for Using Alcohol

Montgomery, Robert L.; Benedicto, Juanita A.; Haemmerlie, Frances M.

doi:10.2466/pr0.1993.73.3.960

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“…Given the number of different stressors to which adolescents may be routinely exposed, it is not surprising that human adolescents consume alcohol in part for coping reasons (Cooper et al, 2000). Indeed, adolescents who expect alcohol to alleviate their anxiety and to relieve their personal problems are especially likely to engage in heavy and problem drinking (Bates and Labouvie, 1997; Kuntsche et al, 2005; Montgomery et al, 1993). Therefore, anxiolytic effects of ethanol may contribute to high levels of alcohol use during adolescence.…”

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Sensitization to social anxiolytic effects of ethanol in adolescent and adult Sprague–Dawley rats after repeated ethanol exposure

Spear

2010

Alcohol

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Ontogenetic studies using a social interaction paradigm have shown that adolescent rats are less sensitive to anxiolytic properties of acute ethanol than their adult counterparts. It is not known, however, whether adaptations to these anxiolytic effects upon repeated experiences with ethanol would be similar in adolescents and adults. The present study investigated sensitivity to the anxiolytic effects of ethanol in adolescent and adult male and female Sprague-Dawley rats following 7 days of exposure [postnatal day (P) 27-33 for adolescents and P62-68 for adults] to 1 g/kg ethanol or saline (i.p.), as well as in animals left non-manipulated during this time. Anxiolytic effects of ethanol (0, 0.75, 1.0, 1.25, and 1.5 g/kg for adolescents and 0, 0.25, 0.5, 0.75, 1.0, and 1.25 g/kg for adults in Experiments 1 and 2, respectively) were examined 48 hours after the last exposure using a modified social interaction test under unfamiliar test circumstances. At both ages, repeated ethanol exposure resulted in the development of apparent sensitization to anxiolytic effects of ethanol indexed via enhancement of social investigation and transformation of social avoidance into social indifference or preference, as well as expression of tolerance to the socially inhibiting effects induced by higher ethanol doses. Evidence for the emergence of sensitization in adults and tolerance at both ages was seen not only following chronic ethanol, but also after chronic saline exposure, suggesting that chronic manipulation per se may be sufficient to alter the sensitivity of both adolescents and adults to socially-relevant effects of ethanol.

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Sensitization to social anxiolytic effects of ethanol in adolescent and adult Sprague–Dawley rats after repeated ethanol exposure

Spear

2010

Alcohol

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“…Coping motives have been associated with both heavy drinking [17,20,33] and alcohol-related problems in young drinkers [14,[34][35][36] , adult drinkers [10] , and alcohol-dependent adults [37][38][39] . Recent studies [23] suggest that it is important to differentiate between two subtypes of coping motives based on findings that there appear to be two distinct internal negative reinforcement pathways to alcohol dependence [40] .…”

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Drinking Motives in Clinical and General Populations

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Aims: This paper had three aims: (1) to validate a Spanish adaptation of the Modified Drinking Motives Questionnaire-Revised (M DMQ-R), (2) to explore the relationship of each drinking motive with different patterns of alcohol use, and (3) to compare the drinking motives of moderate drinkers, heavy drinkers, and alcohol abusing/dependent individuals. Methods: Two studies were carried out. In Study 1, a sample of 488 participants completed the M DMQ-R and a self-report scale of alcohol consumption in order to study the factor structure and different indices of reliability and validity of the Spanish M DMQ-R. In Study 2, we compared the drinking motives of moderate and heavy drinkers from Study 1 and an additional sample of 59 clinical drinkers. Results: The M DMQ-R demonstrated sound reliability and validity indices. Coping-with-anxiety, social, and enhancement motives predicted higher alcohol use on weekends, but only coping-with-anxiety and social motives were related to consumption on weekdays. Furthermore, moderate drinkers had the lowest scores for all motives, whereas alcohol-dependent participants obtained the highest scores for negative reinforcement drinking motives. Conclusion: The Spanish M DMQ-R is a reliable and valid measure of drinking motives and has potential for assisting with treatment planning for problem drinkers.

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“…Although norms may be especially relevant for socially focused drinkers because of the social comparison component of norms, they may be less relevant for coping-motivated drinkers. Drinking to cope with negative affect has been identified as an indicator of heavy (Cooper et al, 2000;Labouvie & Bates, 2002;Montgomery et al, 1993) and problematic drinking (Kuntsche et al, 2005(Kuntsche et al, , 2008Lewis et al, 2008;Martens et al, 2008).…”

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confidence: 99%