A matter of perspective: The convergent and incremental validity of informant-reported drinking motives

Andy J. Kim, Simon B. Sherry, Trevor Shannon, Ivy Lee Kehayes, Sherry H. Stewart

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Introduction: Drinkers have social and affective reasons for using alcohol (‘drinking motives’). Historically, drinking motives are self-reported. Informant-reports of drinking motives may be useful in corroborating self-report data. Thus, we investigated the correspondence between self- and informant-reports of drinking motives and the incremental validity of informant-reported motives in predicting targets' future alcohol problems. Methods: Measures were completed by 174 university-aged, same-sex drinking buddy dyads (66% women) across two waves separated by 30 days. Dyad members who contacted study organisers were treated as targets, and their buddies as informants. Targets self-reported their own drinking motives at baseline, as well as their own alcohol problems at baseline and 30 days later. Informants reported on targets' drinking motives at baseline. Results: Self- and informant-reports of targets' internal drinking motives (coping-depression and enhancement) showed significant, small positive correlations. Informants-reports of these same internal drinking motives (as well as coping-anxiety) predicted change in targets' alcohol problems over time, thereby providing additional predictive validity beyond that provided by targets' self-reports. Discussion and Conclusions: We encourage incorporating informant-reported internal drinking motives when assessing risk for escalating problem drinking in emerging adult drinkers.

Idioma originalEnglish
Páginas (desde-hasta)588-593
Número de páginas6
PublicaciónDrug and Alcohol Review
Volumen41
N.º3
DOI
EstadoPublished - mar. 2022

Nota bibliográfica

Funding Information:
This study was funded by an Insight Grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada awarded to SHS and SBS (Grant # 435‐2015‐1798). I‐LLK was supported by a Joseph‐Armand Bombardier Doctoral Scholarship from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, an Honorary PhD Level Nova Scotia Health Research Foundation Scotia Scholar Award, and by the Eliza Ritchie Scholarship and an Honorary Level I Killam Predoctoral Scholarship from Dalhousie University. AJK is supported through a Nova Scotia Graduate Scholarship—Masters. SHS is supported by a Canadian Institutes of Health Research Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Addictions and Mental Health. These funding sources had no role in the study design, collection, analysis or interpretation of data, writing the manuscript or the decision to submit the manuscript for publication. Michelle Tougas, Lauren Shenkar, Sarah Wells, Pamela Collins and Jennifer Swansburg are thanked for their research assistance.

Funding Information:
This study was funded by an Insight Grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada awarded to SHS and SBS (Grant # 435-2015-1798). I-LLK was supported by a Joseph-Armand Bombardier Doctoral Scholarship from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, an Honorary PhD Level Nova Scotia Health Research Foundation Scotia Scholar Award, and by the Eliza Ritchie Scholarship and an Honorary Level I Killam Predoctoral Scholarship from Dalhousie University. AJK is supported through a Nova Scotia Graduate Scholarship?Masters. SHS is supported by a Canadian Institutes of Health Research Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Addictions and Mental Health. These funding sources had no role in the study design, collection, analysis or interpretation of data, writing the manuscript or the decision to submit the manuscript for publication. Michelle Tougas, Lauren Shenkar, Sarah Wells, Pamela Collins and Jennifer Swansburg are thanked for their research assistance.

Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 Australasian Professional Society on Alcohol and other Drugs.

ASJC Scopus Subject Areas

  • Medicine (miscellaneous)
  • Health(social science)

PubMed: MeSH publication types

  • Journal Article
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

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