Citation

Mihic L, Wells S, Graham K, Tremblay PF, Demers A. Addict. Behav. 2009; 34(3): 264-269.

Affiliation

Department of Psychology, University of Novi Sad, Novi Sad, Serbia. ljiljanamihic@hotmail.com

Copyright

(Copyright © 2009, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.addbeh.2008.10.022

PMID

19019561

Abstract

Situational drinking motives (i.e., motives specific to the drinking situation) as well as respondent-level drinking motives (i.e., usual drinking motives across drinking situations) were examined in terms of their relations with aggression experienced by university students. Secondary, multi-level analyses were conducted on the Canadian Campus Survey (CCS), a national survey of 40 Canadian universities conducted between March 1 and April 30, 2004 (N=6,282). For their three most recent drinking events, students reported their motive for drinking (i.e., situational motive) and whether they had an argument/fight. Respondent-level drinking motives were computed by averaging motives across drinking events. Drinking to cope at the situational-level increased the likelihood of aggression. Respondent-level enhancement motives also increased the risk of aggression. Aesthetic motives were important at both situational and respondent levels decreasing the risk for alcohol-related aggression. Gender did not moderate these relations. These results suggest that prevention programming might benefit from a focus on altering drinking motives, or their underlying causes, in order to reduce alcohol-related aggression among young adults.

Language: en