Drinking motives as mediator in the relationship between social anxiety and alcohol use among private university students in the Klang Valley

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.

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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

Item Type: Thesis (Masters)
Uncontrolled Keywords: Alcohol drinking
Subjects: R Medicine > RC Internal medicine > RC31-1245 Internal medicine
Divisions: Kampus Kesihatan (Health Campus) > Pusat Pengajian Sains Perubatan (School of Medical Sciences) > Thesis
Depositing User: Mr Abdul Hadi Mohammad
Date Deposited: 14 Apr 2019 04:07
Last Modified: 22 Oct 2020 03:03
URI: http://eprints.usm.my/id/eprint/44064

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