People tend to drink alcohol for several reasons, and patterns of drinking behavior and its consequences, particularly degree of drinking may varyaccording to drinking motives. According to Cox and flinger(1988), drinkingmotives provide the final comm...
People tend to drink alcohol for several reasons, and patterns of drinking behavior and its consequences, particularly degree of drinking may varyaccording to drinking motives. According to Cox and flinger(1988), drinkingmotives provide the final common pathway to alcohol use. Furthermore, Cooperand colleagues (1995) developed and validated a motivational model delineatingthe antecedents and consequences of drinking to enhance positive emotions andto cope with negative emotions. This study examined mediational effects ofdrinkin르 motives in the relations between psychological vulnerability factors anddrinking behaviors, based on a motivational model of alcohol use proposed byCooper et al.(1995). Furthermore, using path analyses, this study examined iftheir mediational model would be applicable to the data in two Korean samplesof university students and alcoholics, respectively. The results of path analy?es indicated that both their mediational model of drinking motives and its modified models demonstrated inadequate fit to the data across both samples. Conserluently, by separating the original mediational modelof drinking motives into several parts according to two sets of drinking motives,models suitable for each sample were explored. In the university students group,two mediational models of coping motive in which through mediation of copingmotive, tension reduction expectancy influences alcohol use and drinkingproblems, respectively were supported. In the alcoholic group, the mediationalmodel of the coping motive in which both tension reduction expectancy andavoidance coping affect alcohol use through mediation of coping motive, tensionreduction expectancy influences drinking problems through mediation of copingmotive, and avoidance coping affect drinking problems directly was supported. Inaddition, the meaational model of enhancement motive in which positive emotionsaffect alcohol use and drinking problems through mediational of enhancementmotive. These findings indicated that the mediational model of drinking motivesproposed by Cooper et al.(1995) did not seem to be suitable for two Koreansamples of university students and alcoholics. Instead, alternative mediationalmodels of dfnking motives were proposed, based on the results with eachsample.