Abstract

AGUILAR, Javier; AGUILAR, Amira  and  VALENCIA, Alejandra. An Explanatory Model of Alcohol Consumption among College Students. Acta de investigación psicol [online]. 2011, vol.1, n.3, pp.491-502. ISSN 2007-4719.

The main purpose of the study was to develop a structural model of estimated consumption of alcoholic beverages among undergraduate students, which integrates the motives for drinking (Cooper, 1994), negative expectations and problems, drinking friends, attending parties and sensation seeking (Earleywine and Finn, 1991). In a sample of 138 college students were developed and / or adapted scales to assess these variables, and subsequently validated by multiple regression analysis. The model obtained showed that consumption was directly affected by attendance at parties and negative expectations, and indirectly by the coping, and social-enhancement and drinking friends, in addition, the problems were directly affected by negative expectations, consumption and parties. Moreover, using a latent class model, we identified three subgroups of students with different profiles of consumption, negative expectations, and motives for drinking friends and social-enhancement.

Keywords : Structural model; Alcohol consumption; College students; Drinking motives; Drinking subgroups.

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