Raj, Sharivini Lekha A/P Youva
(2016)
Drinking motives as mediator in the relationship between social anxiety and alcohol use among private university students in the Klang Valley.
Masters thesis, 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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