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Predictive Models of Alcohol Use Based on Attitudes and Individual Values

2013; SAGE Publishing; Volume: 43; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.2190/de.43.1.b

1541-4159

José A. García del Castillo, Carmen López Sánchez, Mari Carmen Quiles-Soler, Álvaro García del Castillo‐López, Mónica Gázquez Pertusa, Juan C. Marzo, Cándido J. Inglés,

Alcohol Consumption and Health Effects

Two predictive models are developed in this article: the first is designed to predict people' attitudes to alcoholic drinks, while the second sets out to predict the use of alcohol in relation to selected individual values. University students ( N = 1,500) were recruited through stratified sampling based on sex and academic discipline. The questionnaire used obtained information on participants' alcohol use, attitudes and personal values. The results show that the attitudes model correctly classifies 76.3% of cases. Likewise, the model for level of alcohol use correctly classifies 82% of cases. According to our results, we can conclude that there are a series of individual values that influence drinking and attitudes to alcohol use, which therefore provides us with a potentially powerful instrument for developing preventive intervention programs.