Drinking motives as mediator in the relationship between social anxiety and alcohol use among private university students in the Klang Valley

As social anxiety becomes a threat, drinking alcohol becomes a trend in experiencing relaxation, acceptance and decreases performance fear. Alcohol use continues to be a major concern among people within the age group 15 – 29, particularly first year university students. This thesis sought to ass...

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Main Author:	Raj, Sharivini Lekha A/P Youva
Format:	Thesis
Language:	English
Published:	2016
Subjects:	RC31-1245 Internal medicine
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spelling	my-usm-ep.440642020-10-22T03:03:18Z Drinking motives as mediator in the relationship between social anxiety and alcohol use among private university students in the Klang Valley 2016-04 Raj, Sharivini Lekha A/P Youva RC31-1245 Internal medicine As social anxiety becomes a threat, drinking alcohol becomes a trend in experiencing relaxation, acceptance and decreases performance fear. Alcohol use continues to be a major concern among people within the age group 15 – 29, particularly first year university students. This thesis sought to assist in integrating a detailed analysis of potential unique mediator of alcohol use among socially anxious people through a quantitative study among 600 private university students in the Klang Valley using Social Interaction Anxiety Scale, Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test and Drinking Motive Questionnaires-Revised. Coping and conformity motives were hypothesized to be the most significant mediator in the relationship between social anxiety and alcohol use. By examining the beta weights, coping motives (β = .27, p < .001) followed by conformity motives (β = .13, p < .05) were making relatively large contributions to the prediction model, followed by social anxiety (β = .15, p < .01) while controlling the mediators. Students with high social anxiety endorsed greater negative reinforcing drinking motives (coping, conformity) which independently mediated the relation between the two variables studied; in which the coping motives were believed to lead to adverse long-term consequences because the discrepancies that foster negative affects have never been adequately addressed 2016-04 Thesis http://eprints.usm.my/44064/ http://eprints.usm.my/44064/1/Dr.%20Sharivini%20Lekha%20AP%20Youva%20Raj-24%20pages.pdf application/pdf en public masters Universiti Sains Malaysia Pusat Pengajian Sains Perubatan
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spellingShingle	RC31-1245 Internal medicine Raj, Sharivini Lekha A/P Youva Drinking motives as mediator in the relationship between social anxiety and alcohol use among private university students in the Klang Valley
description	As social anxiety becomes a threat, drinking alcohol becomes a trend in experiencing relaxation, acceptance and decreases performance fear. Alcohol use continues to be a major concern among people within the age group 15 – 29, particularly first year university students. This thesis sought to assist in integrating a detailed analysis of potential unique mediator of alcohol use among socially anxious people through a quantitative study among 600 private university students in the Klang Valley using Social Interaction Anxiety Scale, Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test and Drinking Motive Questionnaires-Revised. Coping and conformity motives were hypothesized to be the most significant mediator in the relationship between social anxiety and alcohol use. By examining the beta weights, coping motives (β = .27, p < .001) followed by conformity motives (β = .13, p < .05) were making relatively large contributions to the prediction model, followed by social anxiety (β = .15, p < .01) while controlling the mediators. Students with high social anxiety endorsed greater negative reinforcing drinking motives (coping, conformity) which independently mediated the relation between the two variables studied; in which the coping motives were believed to lead to adverse long-term consequences because the discrepancies that foster negative affects have never been adequately addressed
format	Thesis
qualification_level	Master's degree
author	Raj, Sharivini Lekha A/P Youva
author_facet	Raj, Sharivini Lekha A/P Youva
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title	Drinking motives as mediator in the relationship between social anxiety and alcohol use among private university students in the Klang Valley
title_short	Drinking motives as mediator in the relationship between social anxiety and alcohol use among private university students in the Klang Valley
title_full	Drinking motives as mediator in the relationship between social anxiety and alcohol use among private university students in the Klang Valley
title_fullStr	Drinking motives as mediator in the relationship between social anxiety and alcohol use among private university students in the Klang Valley
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granting_institution	Universiti Sains Malaysia
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publishDate	2016
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Drinking motives as mediator in the relationship between social anxiety and alcohol use among private university students in the Klang Valley

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