Putting things in context: Longitudinal relations between drinking contexts, drinking motives, and negative alcohol consequences.

摘要: Recent studies suggest that solitary (but not social) drinking may confer risk for negative alcohol consequences via beliefs about alcohol's ability to reduce tension, and explicit motivations drink cope with mood states. However, because prior are largely cross-sectional, it is unclear if tension reduction expectancies antecedents or of drinking. The current study aimed address this gap in the literature using prospective data (3 waves across 12 months) from a sample moderate heavy young adults. Data were drawn larger investigation contextual influences on subjective response. Participants (N = 448) reported use multiple contexts at baseline (T1), motives 6-month follow-up (T2), past-month 12-month (T3). We examined potential indirect effects operating through motives. Solitary was indirectly associated later stronger coping motives, although did serve as significant mediator. Social directly related consequences. Results these invariant sex, race, ethnicity. These findings have important clinical implications they targeting drinkers skills-based interventions developmental trajectory toward (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved).