This study examined the types of alcohol-related negative consequences experienced by college students with different levels of social anxiety and the ability of drinking motives to predict those types of negative consequences.
118 college students completed self-report measures assessing drinking motives and social anxiety and an interview assessing alcohol consumption and consequences.
Highly socially anxious women were particularly apt to endorse experiencing adverse role functioning consequences.
Although highly socially anxious women were more likely to experience personal consequences from drinking alcohol than were women with low to moderate social anxiety, men with low to moderate social anxiety were more likely to experience social and personal consequences than women with low to moderate social anxiety. In addition, men overall were more likely to experience physical consequences than women.
Enhancement motives predicted physical and role functioning consequences, while coping motives predicted personal consequences.
Lastly, both coping and social motives predicted the experience of social consequences.
The current findings suggest that complex relationships may exist between alcohol consumption, drinking consequences, social anxiety, and drinking motives and contexts.
Read Full Abstract
Request Reprint E-Mail: m.norberg@unsw.edu.au
118 college students completed self-report measures assessing drinking motives and social anxiety and an interview assessing alcohol consumption and consequences.
Highly socially anxious women were particularly apt to endorse experiencing adverse role functioning consequences.
Although highly socially anxious women were more likely to experience personal consequences from drinking alcohol than were women with low to moderate social anxiety, men with low to moderate social anxiety were more likely to experience social and personal consequences than women with low to moderate social anxiety. In addition, men overall were more likely to experience physical consequences than women.
Enhancement motives predicted physical and role functioning consequences, while coping motives predicted personal consequences.
Lastly, both coping and social motives predicted the experience of social consequences.
The current findings suggest that complex relationships may exist between alcohol consumption, drinking consequences, social anxiety, and drinking motives and contexts.
Read Full Abstract
Request Reprint E-Mail: m.norberg@unsw.edu.au
