Motivations for Mixing Alcohol and Sex: Development of a Research Instrument.Motivations for Mixing Alcohol and Sex: Development of a Research Instrument, Patricia Barthalow Koch, Penn State University I studied undergraduate university students' motivations for engaging in sexual behaviors sexual behavior A person's sexual practices–ie, whether he/she engages in heterosexual or homosexual activity. See Sex life, Sexual life. after consuming alcohol in order to develop a reliable and valid research instrument to measure these motivations. An initial research instrument was developed from an extensive review of the literature, the use of q-methodology, and a content analysis of open-ended questions A closed-ended question is a form of question, which normally can be answered with a simple "yes/no" dichotomous question, a specific simple piece of information, or a selection from multiple choices (multiple-choice question), if one excludes such non-answer responses as dodging a posed to undergraduate students. This 65-item instrument was completed by 359 undergraduate students attending a major northeastern university Northeastern University, at Boston, Mass.; coeducational; founded 1898 as a program within the Boston YMCA, inc. 1916, university status 1922, fully independent of the YMCA 1948. . A principle component exploratory factor analysis using varimax rotation extracted 8 factors representing differing motivations for having sex after drinking alcohol. Reliability of the factors composing the Motivations for Mixing Alcohol and Sex Scale (MMASS) ranged from .84-.95 using the Cronbach's alpha Cronbach's  (alpha) has an important use as a measure of the reliability of a psychometric instrument. It was first named as alpha by Cronbach (1951), as he had intended to continue with further instruments. statistic. In addition, some statistically significant differences in motivations were found between men and women and those in casual and committed relationships A committed relationship is an interpersonal relationship based upon a mutually agreed upon commitment to one another involving exclusivity, honesty, or some other agreed upon behavior. . This newly-developed scale may prove useful for both research and clinical purposes.
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