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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"alcohol expectancies"”.
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Decreasing Alcohol Use Among High School Students By Challenging Alcohol Expectancies
Altering alcohol expectancies has reduced alcohol use among college students and may lead to successful prevention of alcohol use among high school students. We randomly assigned 379 12th-grade students to an expectancy challenge, traditional alcohol information, or control condition, and used …
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Environmental Context and Aggression: An Experimental Demonstration of the Role of Alcohol Expectancies
… has extensively investigated predictors of alcohol-related aggression. Alcohol expectancy theory suggests that the link between alcohol and aggression may be related to one's beliefs regarding the expected effects of alcohol on aggression. As such, research has found that exposure to a bar …
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The relationship of alcohol consumption practices to leisure patterns and leisure-related alcohol expectancies
"The links between alcohol consumption and leisure in our society have been pervasive and abiding. Individuals not only typically drink in their ""free time,"" but they often drink to have a ""good time."" There is much evidence in the general alcohol expectancy literature that those individuals …
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Sex-Related Alcohol Expectancies, Alcohol Consumption, and Risky Sexual Behavior Among African American College Women
… consequences. Research suggests that increased alcohol consumption is predictive of more risky sexual behavior among college women. Additionally, sex-related alcohol expectancies, or beliefs about the effects of alcohol on sexual behavior, are positively associated with increased alcohol …
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Sex-Related Alcohol Expectancies And Perceptions Of Sexual Assault: Recognition Response Latency And Blame Attribution
Alcohol use has often been linked with sexual violence. Pumphrey-Gordon and Gross (2007) note that “among the numerous factors that have been associated with the occurrence of sexual assault, the use of alcohol is the most reliable” (p. 476). Novel autonomy places undergraduates at a nexus alcohol …
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Alcohol Expectancies and Self-Efficacy as Moderators of Social Anxiety and Alcohol Use Among College Students
… widely thought to be positively associated with alcohol use. However, these studies rely primarily on self-report of drinking behavior. This research aimed to further explore this research by assessing blood alcohol concentration (BAC), a physiological measure of alcohol intoxication, as the …
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Anger and Alcohol Use: A Model of Coping Styles, Alcohol Expectancies and the Experience and Expression of Anger
… experience and expression, coping styles, and expectancies regarding the effects of alcohol in a young male population. Anger experience and expression was measured using the State-Trait Anger Expression Inventory, coping styles were assessed using the Coping Response Inventory, alcohol …
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The Relationship Between Individual Differences in Cognitive, Social and Personality Development and the Increase in Complexity of Children’s Alcohol Expectancies
… relate to changes in children's understanding of alcohol. To replicate previous work, this study comprehensively examined relative increases in types of expectancies as a function of development. Results demonstrated that children in higher grades held more positive, negative and sedating …
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The effect of anxious affect on drinking self-efficacy in college students
… for avoiding heavy drinking and actual levels of alcohol consumption in college students, the present study examined the role of anxious affect on self-efficacy for avoiding heavy drinking in college students. Specifically, it was hypothesized that heavy drinking subjects who were either high or …
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The effect of social support and quality of life on attitudes towards drinking in a population of older adults.
Alcoholism in older adults remains a highly prevalent problem within the United States. The elderly have been identified as a "special population" at risk for developing alcoholism and older adults struggling with alcoholism continue to represent an underserved population. The present study …
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Alcohol Use and Stress in University Freshmen - A Comparative Intervention Study of Two Universities
… is also associated with increased stress and alcohol consumption. At the start of the autumn term 2002, all students entering educational programmes at two comparable middle-sized Swedish universities were invited to participate in a comparative intervention study. This included both primary …
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Associations Between Drinking, Condom Use Resistance, and Condom Use Among College Students
<p>Alcohol use and sexual intercourse are common behaviors among young adults in college. Drinking is considered a risk factor for unprotected sexual intercourse. Having condomless sex is associated with increased risk of contracting an STI or becoming pregnant unintentionally. Although correct and …
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Perceptions of postdrinking anxiety: effect of sex, beverage, and sex of companion
… as sex differences, on the expected effects of alcohol. The vulnerability and gender role violation hypotheses were examined as explanations for previous findings of sex differences in anxiety responses to alcohol consumption within heterosexual social situations. In the first study, the …
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The relationship between social anxiety and alcohol consumption in college students: Scale development, construct validation, and testing of a social cognitive model
… the frequency of undergraduates experiencing alcohol related problems may be increasing. Research aimed at lowering rates of consumption has begun to focus on individual differences in motivations for heavy alcohol use. The following study used a social-cognitive based model to prospectively …
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Gender role conflict and alcohol metacognitions : implications for the Marlatt Model of Relapse Prevention
Background: The Marlatt model of alcohol treatment (Marlatt & Gordon, 1986) is widespread. A key component of that model is alcohol expectancies. Alcohol expectancies refer to the effects of alcohol use anticipated by individuals. Metacognitive beliefs about alcohol are considered to be a specific …
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Understanding Self-Efficacy for Alcohol Use: The Roles of Self-Monitoring and Hypothesized Source Variables
Self-efficacy for avoiding alcohol use predicts alcohol use after treatment. However, self-efficacy predicts outcome differentially depending on whether ratings are made before or after treatment. In order to increase the predictive validity of self-efficacy judgments, the hypothesized sources of …
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Gender Differences In College Student Drinking: The Relations Of Social And Cognitive Constructs
… exploration of risk taking behaviors, such as alcohol consumption. Current literature suggests that alcohol consumption is an increasing trend on college campuses, with more college students experiencing negative consequences such as alcohol related accidents, injury, and even death. The …
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Evaluating the Effectiveness of the YASP Intervention: Adolescent Substance Use Outcomes
Issues of alcohol and drug use are more pronounced during adolescence than at any other period of the life span. There is currently a need for research focusing on evaluating developmentally appropriate interventions for adolescents at risk for substance use issues. The present study seeks to …
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Alcohol-Cues Relate to Self-Perceptions of Aggression
Alcohol consumption is linked to increases in aggression. Recently, alcohol-related cues alone have been shown to increase aggressive thoughts and behaviors. Furthermore, aggression is displayed differently by men and women; men are more physically aggressive, whereas women are more relationally …
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Social Anxiety Reduction in the Context of Social Modeling Utilizing a Placebo Alcohol Beverage
<p>Alcohol misuse and elevated social anxiety are found to be highly comorbid, and being exposed to social models consuming alcohol can increase one’s consumption. Yet no research has thus far examined whether the internal experience of alcohol consumption (e.g., social anxiety reduction) can also …
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