Drinking motives and alcohol's acute effects in a social laboratory setting.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Motivational models of alcohol use emphasize that drinking motives (enhancement, coping, social, and conformity) drive alcohol consumption. However, few studies have directly tested how drinking motives relate to acute responses to alcohol, and existing studies typically omit social motives and expectancy effects and rely on solitary drinking paradigms with limited ecological validity. This preregistered study addresses these gaps by testing associations between drinking motives and alcohol's acute effects on emotions and social outcomes in a large, multiperson alcohol administration study with placebo control.

Method

Heavy-drinking young adults (N = 393; 50% female) completed the Drinking Motives Questionnaire-Revised and were grouped into 131 triads of una

SUBMITTER: Echeverri CC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12695015 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature