The DRINC (Drinking Reasons Inter-National Collaboration) project: Rationale and protocol for a cross-national study of drinking motives in undergraduates

  • Marie-Eve Couture Dalhousie University
  • Sherry H Stewart Dalhousie University
  • M. Lynne Cooper University of Missouri–Columbia
  • Emmanuel Kuntsche Addiction Switzerland
  • Roisin M. O’Connor Concordia University
  • Sean P. Mackinnon Dalhousie University
  • the DRINC Team
DOI: https://doi.org/10.7895/ijadr.v6i1.239
Keywords: drinking motives, personality, cross-cultural, multisite, methods, protocol, undergraduate students

Abstract

Couture, M., Stewart, S., Cooper, M., Kuntsche, E., O’Connor, R., Mackinnon, S., & DRINC Team, t. (2017). The DRINC (Drinking Reasons Inter-National Collaboration) project: Rationale and protocol for a cross-national study of drinking motives in undergraduates. The International Journal Of Alcohol And Drug Research, 6(1), 7-18. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.7895/ijadr.v6i1.239

Drinking motives are a proximal predictor of alcohol use and misuse through which the effects of more distal influences (e.g., personality) on alcohol-related outcomes are mediated. Although Cooper’s (1994) four-factor drinking-motives model has been well validated in North America, few studies have validated this model in other countries. The aim of the present paper is to describe the rationale, protocol, and methods of a project designed to evaluate the cross-national validity and generalizability of Cooper’s (1994) measure, as modified by Kuntsche and Kuntsche’s Drinking Motives Questionnaire Revised Short Form (DMQ–R SF, 2009), and of the theoretical model (Cooper, Frone, Russell, & Mudar, 1995) linking drinking motives to specific personality risks and alcohol consequences. The project uses data from undergraduates representing 10 nations (Brazil, United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland, Canada, Hungary, Mexico, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, and the United States; total N = 8,478). Findings from this collaboration can be used to guide international researchers in determining the suitability of the DMQ–R SF as a measure of drinking motives in countries outside of North America and may have implications for the development of preventive and therapeutic interventions for alcohol misuse among young adults globally.

Author Biographies

Marie-Eve Couture, Dalhousie University
Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada
Sherry H Stewart, Dalhousie University
Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada
M. Lynne Cooper, University of Missouri–Columbia
Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Missouri–Columbia, Columbia, MO, United States
Emmanuel Kuntsche, Addiction Switzerland
Addiction Suisse Research Institute, Lausanne, Switzerland
Roisin M. O’Connor, Concordia University
Department of Psychology, Concordia University, Montreal, QC, Canada
Sean P. Mackinnon, Dalhousie University
Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Dalthe DRINC Teamhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada
Published
2017-10-04
How to Cite
Couture, M.-E., Stewart, S. H., Cooper, M. L., Kuntsche, E., O’Connor, R. M., Mackinnon, S. P., & DRINC Team, the. (2017). The DRINC (Drinking Reasons Inter-National Collaboration) project: Rationale and protocol for a cross-national study of drinking motives in undergraduates. International Journal of Alcohol and Drug Research, 6(1), 7-18. https://doi.org/10.7895/ijadr.v6i1.239
Issue
Vol. 6 No. 1 (2017)
Section
Papers

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