Drinking Motives and Alcoholic Beverage Preferences among Italian Adolescents

Autor/inn/en	Graziano, Federica; Bina, Manuela; Giannotta, Fabrizia; Ciairano, Silvia
Titel	Drinking Motives and Alcoholic Beverage Preferences among Italian Adolescents
Quelle	In: Journal of Adolescence, 35 (2012) 4, S.823-831 (9 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0140-1971
DOI	10.1016/j.adolescence.2011.11.010
Schlagwörter	Factor Analysis; Social Behavior; Adolescents; Developmental Tasks; Alcohol Abuse; Coping; At Risk Persons; Health Behavior; Drinking; Foreign Countries; Motivation; Correlation; Questionnaires; Social Influences; Self Esteem; Italy + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Faktorenanalyse; Social behaviour; Soziales Verhalten; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Entwicklungsaufgabe; Bewältigung; Risikogruppe; Health behaviour; Gesundheitsverhalten; Trinken; Ausland; psychologische; Motivation (psychologisch); Korrelation; Fragebogen; Sozialer Einfluss; Self-esteem; Selbstaufmerksamkeit; Italien
Abstract	Although drinking motives have been largely studied, research taking into account the Mediterranean drinking culture and focusing on motives specifically associated to adolescents' developmental tasks is lacking. For these reasons the study investigates drinking motives in a group of Italian adolescents and their relationships with drunkenness and high levels of alcohol consumption (wine, beer, spirits and alcopops). A self-report questionnaire on drinking motives and amount of alcohol use was administered to 784 adolescents, boys (46%) and girls, ages 15-19. Using confirmatory factor analysis and stepwise logistic regressions, we found that: 1) motives for drinking were coping, conformity, self-affirmation and experimentation-transgression; 2) coping motives were positively related to the high consumption of all alcoholic beverages and to drunkenness; 3) conformity motives were negatively related to high beer consumption and drunkenness, while experimentation-transgression motives were positively related to high alcopops consumption. Implications for prevention are discussed. (Contains 5 tables.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10