Personality factors and alcohol use: a mediator analysis of drinking motives.

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ID Serval
serval:BIB_2DF452B7270D
Type
Article: article d'un périodique ou d'un magazine.
Collection
Publications
Institution
Titre
Personality factors and alcohol use: a mediator analysis of drinking motives.
Périodique
Personality and Individual Differences
Auteur⸱e⸱s
Kuntsche E., von Fischer M., Gmel G.
ISSN
0191-8869
Statut éditorial
Publié
Date de publication
2008
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Volume
45
Numéro
8
Pages
796-800
Langue
anglais
Résumé
Current evidence on the association between personality factors, drinking motives, and alcohol use comes exclusively from North America. The present study, however, is based on a sample of 2090 Swiss college students (mean age 23.5, SD = 2,9) and investigates by means of structural equation modeling whether drinking motives mediate the association between personality factors and alcohol use. The results revealed that extraversion was positively related to drinking for enhancement motives; conscientiousness was negatively related to both enhancement and coping motives; and neuroticism was positively related to drinking for coping motives. The association between extraversion and alcohol use was mediated by enhancement motives, while the negative association between conscientiousness and alcohol use was partially mediated by both enhancement and coping motives. This concurs with the findings of North American studies. However, in contrast to these findings, our study finds that coping motives attenuate the "protective" effect of neuroticism with regard to alcohol use. Taken together, the study indicates that alcohol use serves specific purposes depending on particular personality traits. The finding that personality-related effects are partially mediated by motives increases the likelihood that motive-based preventive efforts will help reduce alcohol use among young adults who display particular personality traits.
Mots-clé
Extraversion, Neuroticism, Conscientiousness, Drinking motives, Mediation, College students, Switzerland
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