Objective: The COVID-19 pandemic has led to substantial changes in college student alcohol use. Changes in drinking motives may explain some of these changes in drinking patterns. The purpose of the present study is to explore how drinking motives and alcohol use have changed amongst college students considering the timeframes before and after the onset of COVID-19 pandemic (i.e., March 2020) in the United States. We hypothesized that there would be significant changes in drinking motives after March 2020, which would be significantly related to changes in alcohol use.
Methods: Participants for the current study were undergraduate students reporting lifetime alcohol use ( = 198, = 21.3, 66.7% female, 86.4% White) recruited through online advertisements in classes to complete an online survey in April 2020. Participants were asked to report on their drinking motives and alcohol use considering the timeframes before and after the onset of closures and stay-at-home orders during the COVID-19 pandemic (i.e., before and since March 2020).
Results: Paired samples -tests revealed that endorsement of social ([171) = 12.79, < .001, = 1.16) and conformity motives significantly decreased ([170] = 4.46, < .001, = 0.31), while endorsement of coping motives significantly increased ([172] = -2.70, = .008, = .15) after the onset of COVID-19. Linear regression analyses, controlling for drinking motives before March 2020, revealed that changes in enhancement ( = -.47, < .001) and coping motives ( = -.22, = .04) were significantly associated with changes in alcohol use quantity.
Conclusions: Findings of the present study support the need for interventions to target coping and social drinking to reduce risk for alcohol use.
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