Sexual assault and heavy alcohol consumption are common among college students. There is strong evidence that the two are associated, but more remains to be understood about the nature of the relationship. Drinking motives have been found to mediate the relationship between sexual assault and drinking problems and between depression and alcohol risk (Kenney, Anderson, & Stein, 2018; Lindgren, Neighbors, Blayney, Mullins, & Kasen, 2012), however drinking motives have not been studied as an outcome. The current study investigated the impact of a recent sexual assault on the endorsement of coping motives for drinking in first year college women using hierarchical regression analysis with Time 2 coping motives as the outcome variable. Lifetime experience of sexual assault and Time 1 coping motives were entered in the first step of the model and a dichotomous variable indicating a recent sexual assault was entered in the second step of the model. Sexual assault during the first semester of college was found to be a significant predictor of coping motives at the end of the semester after controlling for lifetime history of sexual assault and endorsement of coping motives at Time 1. These findings suggest that coping motives for drinking may change following a sexual assault and are of concern due to the negative outcomes associated with drinking to cope. Drinking motives may be an important target of interventions provided to survivors of sexual assault to reduce risk of future drinking-related problems.

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最近的性侵犯预测大学一年级女性饮酒的应对动机的变化。

性侵犯和大量饮酒在大学生中很常见。有强有力的证据表明这两者是相关的，但关于这种关系的性质还有待了解。已发现饮酒动机在性侵犯与饮酒问题之间以及抑郁与酒精风险之间的关系中起中介作用（Kenney, Anderson, & Stein, 2018; Lindgren, Neighbors, Blayney, Mullins, & Kasen, 2012），但饮酒动机并未作为结果进行了研究。目前的研究使用分层回归分析，以时间 2 应对动机作为结果变量，调查了最近一次性侵犯对大学一年级女性饮酒应对动机的认可的影响。在模型的第一步中输入了性侵犯的终生经历和时间 1 的应对动机，在模型的第二步中输入了表示最近性侵犯的二分变量。在控制了性侵犯的终生历史和对时间 1 应对动机的认可后，发现大学第一学期的性侵犯是学期末应对动机的重要预测因素。这些发现表明，饮酒的应对动机可能性侵犯后的变化，并且由于与饮酒应对相关的负面结果而受到关注。饮酒动机可能是向性侵犯幸存者提供干预措施的一个重要目标，以降低未来与饮酒相关问题的风险。