Drinking Motives as Mediators for the Relationships between Overparenting and Alcohol Outcomes

<p>The present study investigated the mediating role of drinking motives in the relationship between overparenting and alcohol outcomes using a sample of 207 traditional age college students (i.e., 18-25 years old; <em>M</em> = 19.8, <em>SD</em> = 1.64). Data on participant demographics, drinking motives, the practices of participants’ primary caregiver, typical weekly drinking, hazardous drinking, and alcohol consequences were collected via SONA (an online participant management software that allows researchers to collect data from a university psychology subject pool). Participants were 89.4% female and 54.1% White. Coping and conformity drinking motives partially mediated the relationships between overparenting, alcohol consequences, and hazardous drinking such that overparenting predicted greater endorsement of coping and conformity motives which in turn predicted increased alcohol consequences and hazardous drinking. Implications include coping and social based interventions for college students that come from difficult parental backgrounds as well as parental education on the potential adverse effects of overly involved parenting styles.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Science (MS)

Level thesis:degree_level

Masters Thesis

Year dc:date.available

2022

Author dc:creator

• Freeman, Tatum

Contributors dc:contributor

• Michael B. Madson
• Bonnie C. Nicholson
• Eric R. Dahlen

• overparenting
• college student drinking
• drinking motives
• helicopter parenting
• Counseling Psychology

Repository record dc:identifier

https://aquila.usm.edu/masters_theses/937

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:aquila.usm.edu:masters_theses-2003