2023/07/14 by Angus, Colin, Kersbergen, Inge, Burke, Lucy C
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paper · doi:10.17605/osf.io/qfbx7
The study aims to determine the degree to which age, sex, and socioeconomic status are directly associated with the consumption of no and low-alcohol (NoLo) drinks. The UK government specifies these drinks as being below <1.2% ABV (Department for Health and Social Care, 2018). It will further contribute to the scientific literature on NoLo by exploring whether these sociodemographic characteristics also indirectly influence consumption of NoLo via their association with drinking motives. The methods include building a structural equation model to explore whether the reasons people drink alcohol (drinking motives) provide indirect pathways which partially mediate relationships between sociodemographic characteristics (socioeconomic status, age, and gender) and NoLo consumption. The drinking motives explored in the study are based on Cooper’s (1994) and Grant et al’s (2007) work, capturing drinking for the following reasons: social, conformity, enhancement, coping-depression, coping-anxiety.