A cross-national study of predrinking motives in Spain and the UK: cross-sectional associations with risk-taking and alcohol consumption

This study contrasts young people's predrinking in two European cultural contexts: Spain and the UK. Whilst UK predrinking typically occurs amongst small groups of individuals who already know one another, the distinctive Spanish context of the Botellón details a far larger gathering in whi...

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Autores: Lowe, Robert D., Monk, Rebecca L., Qureshi, Adam W., Fernández-Montalvo, Javier, Heim, Derek
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión aceptada para publicación
Fecha de publicación:2023
País:España
Institución:Universidad Pública de Navarra
Repositorio:Academica-e. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad Pública de Navarra
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2454/44648
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Palabra clave:Alcohol consumption
Alcohol behaviors
Predrinking
Botellón
Alcohol cultures
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spelling A cross-national study of predrinking motives in Spain and the UK: cross-sectional associations with risk-taking and alcohol consumptionLowe, Robert D.Monk, Rebecca L.Qureshi, Adam W.Fernández-Montalvo, JavierHeim, DerekAlcohol consumptionAlcohol behaviorsPredrinkingBotellónAlcohol culturesThis study contrasts young people's predrinking in two European cultural contexts: Spain and the UK. Whilst UK predrinking typically occurs amongst small groups of individuals who already know one another, the distinctive Spanish context of the Botellón details a far larger gathering in which participants may be less likely to know each other. As such, predrinking motives which drive consumption and risk-taking may be expected to vary between these cultures. An online questionnaire (N = 397; UK = 167, Spain= 230) was used to examine a variety of drinking behaviours and associated beliefs/motivations including predrinking motivations, drinking behaviour, and risk taking. Path analysis was used to analyse both direct and indirect relationships between the measures with the aim of predicting problem alcohol consumption with the most parsimonious model. Varying (in)direct paths were observed between predrinking motives and alcohol consumption between the cultures. Most notably and pointing towards inconsistency in the drivers of young adults' drinking, fun predrinking motives featured prominently among Spanish respondents and predicted their reported consumption (not so in the UK), while conviviality was a more prevalent predrinking motive in the UK sample and associated with alcohol consumption (not the case in Spain). Further, (personal) risky behaviour and risk-taking predicted consumption in both samples, suggesting the importance of group norms and behaviours in predrinking activity, irrespective of alcohol consumption. These findings highlight the potential importance of the environment in which young people predrink. Given their importance in shaping alcohol consumption and risk taking in young people, cultural differences in predrinking contexts and motives warrant further investigation.ElsevierCiencias de la SaludOsasun Zientziak2023info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersionapplication/pdfhttps://hdl.handle.net/2454/44648reponame:Academica-e. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad Pública de Navarrainstname:Universidad Pública de NavarraInglésCreative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:academica-e.unavarra.es:2454/446482026-06-17T12:41:47Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv A cross-national study of predrinking motives in Spain and the UK: cross-sectional associations with risk-taking and alcohol consumption
title A cross-national study of predrinking motives in Spain and the UK: cross-sectional associations with risk-taking and alcohol consumption
spellingShingle A cross-national study of predrinking motives in Spain and the UK: cross-sectional associations with risk-taking and alcohol consumption
Lowe, Robert D.
Alcohol consumption
Alcohol behaviors
Predrinking
Botellón
Alcohol cultures
title_short A cross-national study of predrinking motives in Spain and the UK: cross-sectional associations with risk-taking and alcohol consumption
title_full A cross-national study of predrinking motives in Spain and the UK: cross-sectional associations with risk-taking and alcohol consumption
title_fullStr A cross-national study of predrinking motives in Spain and the UK: cross-sectional associations with risk-taking and alcohol consumption
title_full_unstemmed A cross-national study of predrinking motives in Spain and the UK: cross-sectional associations with risk-taking and alcohol consumption
title_sort A cross-national study of predrinking motives in Spain and the UK: cross-sectional associations with risk-taking and alcohol consumption
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Lowe, Robert D.
Monk, Rebecca L.
Qureshi, Adam W.
Fernández-Montalvo, Javier
Heim, Derek
author Lowe, Robert D.
author_facet Lowe, Robert D.
Monk, Rebecca L.
Qureshi, Adam W.
Fernández-Montalvo, Javier
Heim, Derek
author_role author
author2 Monk, Rebecca L.
Qureshi, Adam W.
Fernández-Montalvo, Javier
Heim, Derek
author2_role author
author
author
author
dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Ciencias de la Salud
Osasun Zientziak
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Alcohol consumption
Alcohol behaviors
Predrinking
Botellón
Alcohol cultures
topic Alcohol consumption
Alcohol behaviors
Predrinking
Botellón
Alcohol cultures
description This study contrasts young people's predrinking in two European cultural contexts: Spain and the UK. Whilst UK predrinking typically occurs amongst small groups of individuals who already know one another, the distinctive Spanish context of the Botellón details a far larger gathering in which participants may be less likely to know each other. As such, predrinking motives which drive consumption and risk-taking may be expected to vary between these cultures. An online questionnaire (N = 397; UK = 167, Spain= 230) was used to examine a variety of drinking behaviours and associated beliefs/motivations including predrinking motivations, drinking behaviour, and risk taking. Path analysis was used to analyse both direct and indirect relationships between the measures with the aim of predicting problem alcohol consumption with the most parsimonious model. Varying (in)direct paths were observed between predrinking motives and alcohol consumption between the cultures. Most notably and pointing towards inconsistency in the drivers of young adults' drinking, fun predrinking motives featured prominently among Spanish respondents and predicted their reported consumption (not so in the UK), while conviviality was a more prevalent predrinking motive in the UK sample and associated with alcohol consumption (not the case in Spain). Further, (personal) risky behaviour and risk-taking predicted consumption in both samples, suggesting the importance of group norms and behaviours in predrinking activity, irrespective of alcohol consumption. These findings highlight the potential importance of the environment in which young people predrink. Given their importance in shaping alcohol consumption and risk taking in young people, cultural differences in predrinking contexts and motives warrant further investigation.
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