TY - JOUR
T1 - Why Adolescents Engage in Early Alcohol Use: A Study of Drinking Motives
AU - Smit, Koen
AU - Voogt, Carmen
AU - Otten, Roy
AU - Kleinjan, Marloes
AU - Kuntsche, Emmanuel
N1 - Funding Information:
Funding for this study was provided by Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) VIDI Grant 452-13-003 awarded to Emmanuel Kuntsche, NWO, Den Haag, the Netherlands. NWO had no role in the study design, collection, analysis or interpretation of the data, writing the manuscript, or the decision to submit the paper for publication. The anonymized data file is to be found at https://osf.io/ngcmt/. All authors have contributed to, have read, and approved the final manuscript
Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 American Psychological Association
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - Shortly after young adolescents initiate alcohol use, we investigated whether (1) drinking motives are associated with current alcohol use and binge drinking, (2) motives predict these alcohol outcomes 6 months later, and (3) alcohol outcomes predict motives 6 months later. Data on adolescents’ drinking motives and alcohol use were drawn from a Dutch longitudinal 7-wave family study at the timepoint of alcohol use initiation (t0, N = 210, 51.4% male, Mage = 14.01 SD = 1.02) and 6 months later (t1, n = 88). Logistic and linear regressions were conducted. Results indicated that young adolescents mainly drink for social and enhancement motives rather than coping and conformity motives. Shortly after alcohol initiation, social motives were associated with alcohol use at t0 ( OR= 1.52), enhancement motives with binge drinking at t0 ( OR= 2.35), and coping motives with binge drinking at t0 ( OR= 2.62) and at t1 ( OR= 3.00). Conformity motives were inversely associated with binge drinking at t0 ( OR= 0.42). Binge drinking predicted coping motives at t1 (B = 0.71, SE = -0.35), but no other associations among alcohol use, binge drinking, and drinking motives at t1 were found. Conclusively, this study shows that young adolescents drink to enjoy parties and to get drunk (social and enhancement motives) rather than to fit in (conformity motives).
AB - Shortly after young adolescents initiate alcohol use, we investigated whether (1) drinking motives are associated with current alcohol use and binge drinking, (2) motives predict these alcohol outcomes 6 months later, and (3) alcohol outcomes predict motives 6 months later. Data on adolescents’ drinking motives and alcohol use were drawn from a Dutch longitudinal 7-wave family study at the timepoint of alcohol use initiation (t0, N = 210, 51.4% male, Mage = 14.01 SD = 1.02) and 6 months later (t1, n = 88). Logistic and linear regressions were conducted. Results indicated that young adolescents mainly drink for social and enhancement motives rather than coping and conformity motives. Shortly after alcohol initiation, social motives were associated with alcohol use at t0 ( OR= 1.52), enhancement motives with binge drinking at t0 ( OR= 2.35), and coping motives with binge drinking at t0 ( OR= 2.62) and at t1 ( OR= 3.00). Conformity motives were inversely associated with binge drinking at t0 ( OR= 0.42). Binge drinking predicted coping motives at t1 (B = 0.71, SE = -0.35), but no other associations among alcohol use, binge drinking, and drinking motives at t1 were found. Conclusively, this study shows that young adolescents drink to enjoy parties and to get drunk (social and enhancement motives) rather than to fit in (conformity motives).
KW - Alcohol use
KW - Drinking motives
KW - Young adolescents
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U2 - 10.1037/pha0000383
DO - 10.1037/pha0000383
M3 - Article
SN - 1936-2293
VL - 30
SP - 73
EP - 81
JO - Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology
JF - Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology
IS - 1
ER -