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04-03-2024 | Brief Report

Social Anxiety, Drinking Game Motives, and Drinking Game Outcomes Among a Large Multisite Sample of University Students

Auteurs: Katherine Walukevich-Dienst, Byron L. Zamboanga, Amie R. Newins, Makayla L. Dehmer, Lindsay S. Ham, Timothy J. Grigsby, Su Yeong Kim

Gepubliceerd in: Cognitive Therapy and Research

Abstract

Background

Undergraduates with higher levels of social anxiety may be motivated to participate in high-risk drinking events (e.g., playing drinking games [DG]) as a way to “fit in” or facilitate socialization with peers), putting them at an elevated risk of experiencing alcohol-related negative consequences (e.g., blacking out). The present study sought to test associations between social anxiety symptoms, DG behaviors and consequences, and DG-specific motives among a large, multisite sample of undergraduates.

Methods

Participants were 7,528 undergraduate students who endorsed current (past month) drinking. Participants completed a cross-sectional, self-report survey that included measures of DG behaviors, DG motives, and DG negative consequences as part of a large, multisite observational study.

Results

Consistent with prior work, social anxiety symptoms were negatively associated with lifetime history of DG participation. Among participants who endorsed playing DG in the past 30 days, social anxiety was not associated with DG frequency or quantity, but it was positively associated with all DG motives and cumulative negative DG consequences.

Conclusions

Although undergraduates with higher social anxiety levels were less likely to participate in DGs than those with lower social anxiety levels, among undergraduates who chose to participate in DGs, social anxiety was positively associated with multiple motivations to play DGs and alcohol-related consequences as a result of playing DGs.

The item “I have difficulty talking to attractive persons of the opposite sex” was changed to be more inclusive: “I have difficulty talking to people I find attractive.”

Participants who endorsed typically drinking more than 50 drinks were removed from analyses for the present study.

This revised version of the MPDG includes five additional items which were added in response to the recommendations noted in Zamboanga et al. (2019). Results from a confirmatory factor analysis indicated that the 7-factor structure model fit the data reasonably well (Zamboanga et al., 2024b).

Although participants were clustered within site, intraclass correlation coefficients indicated that less than 1% of the variance in DG variables was accounted for by site, so multilevel models were deemed unnecessary.

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Titel: Social Anxiety, Drinking Game Motives, and Drinking Game Outcomes Among a Large Multisite Sample of University Students
Auteurs: Katherine Walukevich-Dienst
Byron L. Zamboanga
Amie R. Newins
Makayla L. Dehmer
Lindsay S. Ham
Timothy J. Grigsby
Su Yeong Kim
Publicatiedatum: 04-03-2024
Uitgeverij: Springer US
Gepubliceerd in: Cognitive Therapy and Research
Print ISSN: 0147-5916
Elektronisch ISSN: 1573-2819
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10608-024-10471-3

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