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The Relationship Between Coping Strategies, Alcohol Expectancies, Drinking Motives And Drinking Behaviour, Penelope Hasking, Michael Lyvers, Cassandra Carlopio

Mike Lyvers

Numerous models have been proposed in an attempt to explain both alcohol use and alcohol abuse. Many of these models propose that drinking behaviour is the result of a complex interplay of cognitive and behavioural variables including coping strategies, alcohol expectancies and motives for drinking. However few studies have explored how these elements may work together to predict drinking. The current study proposed a mediational model of alcohol use in which coping strategies are related to alcohol expectancies, which in turn are related to drinking motives. Drinking motives were then viewed as proximal predictors of drinking behaviour. There were 454 …