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The original survey contained 29 questions concerning motivation for drinking, awareness of alcohol use disorders, perception of excessive drinking and alcohol dependence, and evaluation of the concept of reduced drinking.
Of particular interest here, 12th-grade adolescents tend to report higher motivation for drinking to get drunk (as well as other social and coping reasons for drinking) than do young adults.
Hence, motivation for drinking may be related to its ability to alleviate stress, including stress associated with periods of abstinence following bouts of heavy drinking (Cappell and Greeley 1987; Sayette 1999).
Previous research looking at the motivations for alcohol use in young Sri Lankan males has found that tension reduction was the most prominent motivation for drinking (drinking for personal enjoyment or due to social pressure did not significantly predict drinking frequency) [ 10].
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Motivations for drinking described by females were largely social.
These were used to assess motivations for drinking among those participants who reported alcohol use.
However, this does not address motivations for drinking among women– an issue unexplored until this current study.
The drinking motivation items have not been validated for use in the Russian population; therefore they may not be an accurate measure of motivations for drinking among this population.
It is noteworthy that all the participants were current users of alcohol but their drinking patterns, frequency of consumption and motivations for drinking varied, often in ways that related to the meaning of alcohol to each participant.
By contrast, women's domestic responsibilities gave them strength and purpose The deceased were commonly described as being caught in a downward spiral of heavy drinking, ill health, work and personal problems, where life problems were a motivation for heavier drinking, and heavier drinking, in turn, worsened the man's situation.
We study the coupling effect between the motivation for eating and the one for drinking.
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