Citation

Haynes EE, Strauss CV, Stuart GL, Shorey RC. Violence Against Women 2018; 24(4): 401-420.

Affiliation

Ohio University, Athens, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2018, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/1077801217698047

PMID

29332546

Abstract

The present study sought to examine whether drinking motives (i.e., coping, social, conformity, and enhancement) moderated the relationship between physical, sexual, and psychological dating violence victimization and alcohol-related problems in a sample of drinking college women ( N = 177).

RESULTS demonstrated that coping and social drinking motives moderated the relationship between sexual victimization and alcohol problems; conformity, social, and enhancement drinking motives moderated the relationship between alcohol-related problems and physical victimization; no significant findings were evident for psychological aggression victimization. Our results partially support the self-medication model of alcohol use, and this may be particularly relevant to sexual victimization.

Language: en

Keywords

dating violence; drinking motives; victimization