@article{ref1,
title="The influence of drinking buddies: a longitudinal investigation of drinking  motivations and drinking behaviors in emerging adults",
journal="Substance use and misuse",
year="2020",
author="Kehayes, Ivy-Lee L. and Mackinnon, Sean P. and Sherry, Simon B. and Leonard, Kenneth E. and Stewart, Sherry H.",
volume="ePub",
number="ePub",
pages="ePub-ePub",
abstract="BACKGROUND: Heavy alcohol consumption and frequent alcohol use are associated with  many adverse social and physical consequences. The different motivations underlying  why people drink predict different patterns of alcohol consumption. A drinking buddy  (i.e. a friend with whom a person drinks alcohol) influences a person's drinking via  social learning, leading to escalations in drinking over time. <br><br>PURPOSE: Few studies  have investigated drinking motives among peers and none have studied whether the  drinking motives of a drinking buddy can influence another person's drinking  behavior; we sought to fill that gap. <br><br>METHOD: Same-sex drinking buddies (N = 174;  66.1% female) were assessed once monthly for four months using self-report  questionnaires. Participants were on average 18.66 years-old (SD = 1.17). <br><br>RESULTS:  Indistinguishable actor-partner interdependence models using multilevel path  analysis were conducted, with each drinking motive predicting drinking frequency and  quantity, respectively. There were significant actor effects for social,  enhancement, conformity, and coping motives; moreover, the enhancement, social, and  coping-anxiety motives of the drinking buddy influenced the individual's drinking  frequency across the four months of the study. Conversely, only the enhancement  motives of the buddy predicted drinking quantity in the individual when averaged  across time. Sex was not a significant moderator of these effects. Importance: When  targeting risky drinking behavior in a therapeutic context, assessing and addressing  a person's reasons for drinking, as well as their drinking buddy's reasons for  drinking, may reduce the risk of escalations in either friend's drinking frequency  over time.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1082-6084",
doi="10.1080/10826084.2020.1861631",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10826084.2020.1861631"
}