scholarly journals An examination of the extent to which drinking motives and problem alcohol consumption vary as a function of deprivation, gender and age

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Derek Heim ◽  
Rebecca L. Monk ◽  
Adam W. Qureshi
Keyword(s):  
Alcohol Consumption ◽  
Drinking Motives ◽  
Gender And Age ◽  
Problem Alcohol

Reward-Related Attentional Capture Moderates the Association between Fear-Driven Motives and Heavy Drinking

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Chang Liu ◽  
Murat Yücel ◽  
Chao Suo ◽  
Mike E. Le Pelley ◽  
Jeggan Tiego ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Alcohol Consumption ◽  
Attentional Capture ◽  
Heavy Drinking ◽  
Drinking Motives ◽  
Drinking Patterns ◽  
Cognitive Mechanisms ◽  
Problematic Drinking ◽  
The Past ◽  
Motivational Profile

Background: To date, there has been little investigation on how motivational and cognitive mechanisms interact to influence problematic drinking behaviours. Towards this aim, the current study examined whether reward-related attentional capture is associated with reward, fear (relief), and habit drinking motives, and further, whether it interacts with these motives in relation to problematic drinking patterns. Methods: Ninety participants (mean age = 34.8 years, SD = 9.1, 54% male) who reported having consumed alcohol in the past month completed an online visual search task that measured reward-related attentional capture as well as the Habit Reward Fear Scale, a measure of drinking motives. Participants also completed measures of psychological distress, impulsivity, compulsive drinking, and consumption items of Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test. Regression analyses examined the associations between motives for alcohol consumption and reward-related attentional capture, as well as the associations between reward-related attentional capture, motives, and their interaction, with alcohol consumption and problems. Results: Greater reward-related attentional capture was associated with greater reward motives. Further, reward-related attentional capture also interacted with fear motives in relation to alcohol consumption. Follow-up analyses showed that this interaction was driven by greater fear motives being associated with heavier drinking among those with lower reward-related attentional capture (i.e., “goal-trackers”). Conclusion: These findings have implications for understanding how cognition may interact with motives in association with problematic drinking. Specifically, the findings highlight different potential pathways to problematic drinking according to an individual’s cognitive-motivational profile and may inform tailored interventions to target profile-specific mechanisms. Finally, these findings offer support for contemporary models of addiction that view excessive goal-directed behaviour under negative affect as a critical contributor to addictive behaviours.

Gender and Age Differences in College Students' Alcohol Consumption

1993 ◽  
Vol 72 (1) ◽  
pp. 211-216 ◽  
Author(s):  
William C. Gross
Keyword(s):  
Alcohol Consumption ◽  
High Rate ◽  
Alcoholic Beverages ◽  
Opposite Pattern ◽  
Gender And Age ◽  
Drinking Age ◽  
Gender And Age Differences ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Rate Research

Respondents (86 men and 141 women) enrolled in classes at a large university in the Midwest participated in this study, designed to examine the role gender and age play in the consumption of alcoholic beverages. The hypotheses that age and gender would produce significant effects were supported. Men reported significantly greater alcohol consumption than did women. In addition, there was a significant interaction between gender and age. Women under legal drinking age had higher rates of consumption than women of legal drinking age or older, while the opposite pattern was found for men. The long-term pattern of alcohol consumption may be different for men than for women. During the college years, women seem to moderate their consumption. Finally, these results indicate that illegal, underage drinking by men and women occurs at a high rate. Research should be designed to evaluate the extent of the problem.

scholarly journals Dispositional drinking motives: Associations with appraised alcohol effects and alcohol consumption in an ecological momentary assessment investigation.

2014 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 363-369 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas M. Piasecki ◽  
M. Lynne Cooper ◽  
Phillip K. Wood ◽  
Kenneth J. Sher ◽  
Saul Shiffman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Alcohol Consumption ◽  
Ecological Momentary Assessment ◽  
Drinking Motives ◽  
Alcohol Effects ◽  
Ecological Momentary ◽  
Momentary Assessment

scholarly journals The Association between the Australian Alcopops Tax and National Chlamydia Rates among Young People—an Interrupted Time Series Analysis

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 1343 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Gilmore ◽  
Tanya Chikritzhs ◽  
Hamish McManus ◽  
John Kaldor ◽  
Rebecca Guy
Keyword(s):  
Time Series ◽  
Alcohol Consumption ◽  
Young People ◽  
Time Series Analysis ◽  
Interrupted Time Series ◽  
Interrupted Time Series Analysis ◽  
Sexually Transmitted ◽  
Series Analysis ◽  
Alcohol Taxation ◽  
Gender And Age

A national tax increase, which became known as the “alcopops tax”, was introduced in Australia on the 27th April 2008 on ready-to-drink alcoholic beverages, which are consumed predominantly by young people. The affordability of alcohol has been identified as the strongest environmental driver of alcohol consumption, and alcohol consumption is a well-known risk factor in the spread of sexually transmitted infections via its association with sexual risk-taking. We conducted a study to investigate whether there was any association between the introduction of the tax and changes in national chlamydia rates: (i) notification rates (diagnoses per 100,000 population; primary outcome and standard approach in alcohol taxation studies), and (ii) test positivity rates (diagnoses per 100 tests; secondary outcome) among 15–24 and 25–34-year-olds, using interrupted time series analysis. Gender- and age-specific chlamydia trends among those 35 and older were applied as internal control series and gender- and age-specific consumer price index-adjusted per capita income trends were controlled for as independent variables. We hypothesised that the expected negative association between the tax and chlamydia notification rates might be masked due to increasing chlamydia test counts over the observation period (2000 to 2016). We hypothesised that the association between the tax and chlamydia test positivity rates would occur as an immediate level decrease, as a result of a decrease in alcohol consumption, which, in turn, would lead to a decrease in risky sexual behaviour and, hence, chlamydia transmission. None of the gender and age-specific population-based rates indicated a significant immediate or lagged association with the tax. However, we found an immediate decrease in test positivity rates for 25–34-year-old males (27% reduction—equivalent to 11,891 cases prevented post-tax) that remained detectable up to a lag of six months and a decrease at a lag of six months for 15–24-year-old males (31% reduction—equivalent to 16,615 cases prevented) following the tax. For no other gender or age combination did the change in test positivity rates reach significance. This study adds to the evidence base supporting the use of alcohol taxation to reduce health-related harms experienced by young people and offers a novel method for calculating sexually transmitted infection rates for policy evaluation.

Associations between drinking motives and changes in adolescents' alcohol consumption: a full cross-lagged panel study

Addiction ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 106 (7) ◽  
pp. 1270-1278 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen Schelleman-Offermans ◽  
Emmanuel Kuntsche ◽  
Ronald A. Knibbe
Keyword(s):  
Alcohol Consumption ◽  
Panel Study ◽  
Drinking Motives

Prior drinking motives predict alcohol consumption during the COVID-19 lockdown: A cross-sectional online survey among Belgian college students

2021 ◽  
Vol 115 ◽  
pp. 106772
Author(s):  
Zoé Bollen ◽  
Arthur Pabst ◽  
Coralie Creupelandt ◽  
Sullivan Fontesse ◽  
Séverine Lannoy ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Alcohol Consumption ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Drinking Motives ◽  
Cross Sectional

scholarly journals Evaluating implicit drinking identity as a mediator of drinking motives and alcohol consumption and craving

2015 ◽  
Vol 43 ◽  
pp. 33-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristen P. Lindgren ◽  
Clayton Neighbors ◽  
Reinout W. Wiers ◽  
Melissa L. Gasser ◽  
Bethany A. Teachman
Keyword(s):  
Alcohol Consumption ◽  
Drinking Motives
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