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Young people living in different neighborhoods may drink for different reasons. The aims of this study were to determine if neighborhood characteristics were associated with adolescent drinking motives, and whether drinking motives mediate the relationship between neighborhood context and regular alcohol use. Data from the Scottish Health Behaviours in School-aged Children 2010 survey of students in their 4th year of secondary school were used. The study included 1119 participants who had data on neighborhood characteristics and had used alcohol in the past year. Students were asked questions about the local area where they lived, their alcohol use, and their motives for drinking alcohol, based on the Drinking Motives Questionnaire Revised Short Form (DMQR-SF). Multilevel multivariable models and structural equation models were used in this study. Coping motives showed significant variation across neighborhoods. Structural equation models showed coping motives mediated the relationships between neighborhood deprivation, living in an accessible small-town, and neighborhood-level disorder with regular alcohol use. Public health policies that improve neighborhood conditions and develop adaptive strategies, aimed at improving alcohol-free methods for young people to cope better with life\u2019s stresses, may be particularly effective in reducing inequalities in adolescent alcohol use if targeted at small towns and areas of increased deprivation.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/ijerph16050853","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2019,3,8]],"date-time":"2019-03-08T11:21:59Z","timestamp":1552044119000},"page":"853","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":10,"title":["Do Drinking Motives Mediate the Relationship between Neighborhood Characteristics and Alcohol Use among Adolescents?"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"16","author":[{"given":"Gina","family":"Martin","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Child and Adolescent Health Research Unit, School of Medicine, University of St Andrews, St Andrews KY16 9TF, UK"},{"name":"Human Environments Analysis Laboratory, Western University, London, ON N6A 3K7, Canada"},{"name":"Department of Geography, Western University, London, ON N6A 3K7, Canada"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-8322-8817","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Joanna","family":"Inchley","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Child and Adolescent Health Research Unit, School of Medicine, University of St Andrews, St Andrews KY16 9TF, UK"},{"name":"MRC\/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G2 3AX, UK"}]},{"given":"Candace","family":"Currie","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Child and Adolescent Health Research Unit, School of Medicine, University of St Andrews, St Andrews KY16 9TF, UK"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2019,3,8]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"180","DOI":"10.1016\/j.drugalcdep.2015.05.022","article-title":"A multi-level analysis of the impact of neighborhood structural and social factors on adolescent substance use","volume":"153","author":"Fagan","year":"2015","journal-title":"Drug Alcohol Depend."},{"key":"ref_2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"95","DOI":"10.1007\/s00038-018-1181-8","article-title":"The neighbourhood social environment and alcohol use among urban and rural Scottish adolescents","volume":"64","author":"Martin","year":"2019","journal-title":"Int. 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