Drinking motives as mediator in the relationship between social anxiety and alcohol use among private university students in the Klang Valley
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Date
2016
Authors
Raj, Sharivini Lekha A/P Youva
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Pusat Pengajian Sains Perubatan, Universiti Sains Malaysia
Abstract
As social anxiety becomes a threat, drinking alcohol becomes a trend in experiencing
relaxation, acceptance and decreases performance fear. Alcohol use continues to be a major
concern among people within the age group 15 – 29, particularly first year university
students. This thesis sought to assist in integrating a detailed analysis of potential unique
mediator of alcohol use among socially anxious people through a quantitative study among
600 private university students in the Klang Valley using Social Interaction Anxiety Scale,
Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test and Drinking Motive Questionnaires-Revised.
Coping and conformity motives were hypothesized to be the most significant mediator in the
relationship between social anxiety and alcohol use. By examining the beta weights, coping
motives (β = .27, p < .001) followed by conformity motives (β = .13, p < .05) were making
relatively large contributions to the prediction model, followed by social anxiety (β = .15, p <
.01) while controlling the mediators. Students with high social anxiety endorsed greater
negative reinforcing drinking motives (coping, conformity) which independently mediated
the relation between the two variables studied; in which the coping motives were believed to
lead to adverse long-term consequences because the discrepancies that foster negative affects
have never been adequately addressed
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Alcohol drinking