Difficulties in Emotion Regulation and Alcohol-related Problems Among Undergraduate Students: The Mediating Role of Drinking Motives
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Objectives: To develop and validate a structural relationship between difficulties in emotion regulation and alcohol-related problems, having drinking motives as mediating factors in university students Materials and methods: The study was a correlation study. The data were collected through self-report questionnaires, including the demographic questionnaire, the Drinking Behavior Questionnaire, the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale, the Drinking Motives Questionnaire-Revised (DMQ-R), and the Drinking-Related Problems Scale for College Students (DPS-C). The participants were 385 undergraduates aged 18 years and older, who had drunk alcohol in the previous 12 months. Results: The results indicated that the hypothesized model had a good fit with empirical data (𝜒2= .028, df = 1, p = .867, 𝜒2/𝑑𝑓 = .028, RMSEA < .001, CFI = 1.000, TLI = 1.000, SRMR = .001). Additionally, the path analysis demonstrated that 1) the four types of drinking motives; including enhancement motive, coping motive, social motive, and conformity motive, were directly influenced by difficulties in emotion regulation, 2) coping motive and enhancement motive have direct effects on alcohol-related problems among university students, and 3) the relationship between difficulties in emotion regulation on alcohol-related problems was mediated by coping motive (TE = .122) and enhancement motive (TE = .029). Conclusion: The findings supported that enhancement motive and coping motive are the mediating factor in the relationship between difficulties in emotion regulation and alcohol-related problems in university students.
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