Personal and Social Drinking Motives, Family Drinking History, and Problems Associated with Drinking in Two University Samples

• NCJ Number: 139679
• Journal: Journal of Drug Education Volume: 22 Issue: 3 Dated: (1992) Pages: 195-202
• Author(s): J R Bradley; R S Carman; A Petree
• Date Published: 1992
• Length: 8 pages
• Publication Format: Article
• Publication Type: Survey
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America

Annotation

Two drinking motive scales -- Personal (NP) motives and Positive Social (PS) motives -- and a Negative Family Models (NFM) scale designed to reflect family modeling of drinking-related problems were evaluated for internal consistency and association with college students' scores on a drinking-related Social Complications (SOCCOMP) Scale.

Abstract

All four scales demonstrated high internal consistency in an initial sample of 553 college students and a cross- validation sample of 293 students. All correlations between the predictor variables and the SOCCOMP criterion were positive and significant for both studies. Multiple regression analyses of the NFM, NP, and PS scales as well as quantity and frequency of reported alcohol consumption on SOCCOMP for both studies yielded highly significant results which confirm the additive association of these measures with problem drinking outcomes. 2 tables and 16 references