Cross-cultural examination of the five-factor model of drinking motives in Spanish and Canadian undergraduates

Authors

  • Laura Mezquita Department of Basic and Clinical Psychology and Psychobiology, Universitat Jaume I
  • Sherry H. Stewart Departments of Psychiatry, Psychology, and Community Health and Epidemiology, Dalhousie University
  • Emmanuel Kuntsche Addiction Info Switzerland, Research Institute, Switzerland. Behavioural Science Institute, Radboud University, the Netherlands
  • Valerie V. Grant Bedford/Sackville Mental Health Services, Capital District Health Authority, Lower Sackville, Nova Scotia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.20882/adicciones.822

Keywords:

Drinking motives, cross-cultural study, alcohol, M DMQ-R, undergraduates.

Abstract

This study aims to test the cross-cultural suitability of Modified Drinking Motives Questionnaire-Revised (M DMQ-R) (Grant, Stewart, O’Connor, Blackwell, & Conrod, 2007). The sample included 571 Spanish and 571 Canadian undergraduates between the ages of 18 and 22 (65.8% women). The confirmatory factor analysis demonstrated factorial invariance between samples. The regression analysis showed that social, enhancement and low conformity motives were related to drinking frequency and drinking quantity in the total sample. No moderation effect of country on predicting alcohol consumption was found. The results suggest that M DMQ-R is a suitable instrument for comparing drinking motives across Spanish and Canadian undergraduates, and that motives-focused prevention and treatment programmes developed in one country could be generalised to another. 

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Published

2016-06-14

Issue

Vol. 28 No. 4 (2016)

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Originals