The relationship between motivational structure, sense of control, intrinsic motivation and university students' alcohol consumption

Users’ Intrinsic Goals Linked to Alcohol Dependence Risk Level and Engagement With a Health Promotion Website (Hello Sunday Morning): Observational Study (Preprint)

“…Money, growth, relationships and -intuitively -alcohol goals related positively with alcohol dependence risk level, meaning that as alcohol dependence risk level increased so too did subscription to these goals. This result aligns with evidence suggesting that extrinsic goals relate to increased alcohol consumption [14], though links to growth and relationships are unexpected. Alcohol dependence risk level did not relate to image, community or health goals.…”

“…The relationship of alcohol-related goals to alcohol dependence risk level is intuitive; the more at risk one is, the more their goals might centre on reducing that risk. With regards to the correlation between WHO-AUDIT and money-related goals, an extrinsic aspirational focus has been found to relate to increased alcohol consumption [14], in addition, and more pragmatically, the more one drinks the more one is likely to spend on alcohol so this relationship is evidentially and practically founded. However, the positive correlation between WHO-AUDIT, and growth and relationship goals is unexpected.…”

“…Participants with WHO-AUDIT scores higher than nineteen (Zone 4, likely alcohol dependent) were twice as likely to sign-up for alcohol-related goals than those with scores between zero and seven (Zone 1, for whom simple advice and alcohol-education is recommended). Rather than using lay categories for goals, we suggest that analysing intrinsically and extrinsically goals, coded according to the aforementioned principles of selfdetermination theory, can lead to more specific hypotheses regarding engagement and alcohol consumption, particularly given that evidence suggests that an over-emphasis on extrinsic goals relates to increased alcohol consumption [14][15][16].…”

Forgiveness and the Bottle: Promoting Self-Forgiveness in Individuals Who Abuse Alcohol

“…Although this is a possible confound to our results, we believe that it is more likely for this differential attrition to actually work against support of the hypotheses by systematically retaining participants in the TAU condition who were likely to be more internally motivated and thus were more likely to benefit by treatment as usual without the benefit of the intervention. Further, we speculate that the strong attrition for the TAU condition may be a product of impatience in a population that is often impulsive (Fox, Hong, & Sinha, 2008; Li, Luo, Yan, Bergquist, & Sinha, 2009) and has shown a resistance to self-control (Neal & Carey, 2007; Shamloo & Cox, 2010)—at least in their inability to control alcohol use.…”

Substance abuse among Iranian high school students

“…Adaptive motivational structure is important (67), and it has been shown that behavioral control can help Iranian adolescents to resist drugs (68). There are youth and family counseling programs in Iran that can be effective for behavior problems and, as DeJong et al.…”