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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"college drinking"”.
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The Impact of Normative Beliefs, Religion, and Personality on College Drinking Behavior
… of alcohol consumption seen across many American college campuses, alcohol related problems continue to be an issue for several students ages 18-24. Past research has indicated that several factors may play a role in influencing one’s decision of whether or not to drink alcohol. Among these …
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Personal and social perceptions of college drinking: Implications for alcohol abuse prevention
The purpose of this research was to explore college students' personal and social perceptions of alcohol consumption. A classroom administered survey ($N$ = 302), writing samples ($N$ = 27), group discussions ($N$ = 27), and personal interviews ($N$ = 9) were all used.
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College Drinking, Greek Affiliation And The Need To Fit In: An Analysis Of Social Norms And Motivations Associated With Fraternity and Sorority Binge Drinking
… social organizations have higher rates of binge drinking as compared to other college students due to their greater acceptance of norms and motives that support binge drinking. The College Alcohol Study, a survey conducted by the Harvard School of Public Heath, was administered to 10, 904 …
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From Bootleggers to an Obey the Law Campus: an Analysis of the Alcohol Policies at the University of Mississippi
College drinking is one of the most prevailing problems on college campuses today. To navigate the issues surrounding college drinking, institutions of higher learning spend countless hours and monetary resources putting together educational pieces, developing governing policies, and implementing …
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Incorporating Motives into the Theory of Planned Behavior: Implications for Reducing Alcohol Abuse among College Students
College alcohol abuse continues as a major public-health concern. Theory-driven research is necessary to address the severe negative consequences of this college drinking. One theory that offers particular promise is the theory of planned behavior (TPB). This theory posits that attitudes, perceived …
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Gender Differences In College Student Drinking: The Relations Of Social And Cognitive Constructs
… 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 current study sought to examine the social (peer modeling, descriptive norms, injunctive norms, and …
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Drinking motives and influences among college students
… study was to examine to identify what influences college students to consume alcohol. Specifically, the research was susceptibility to social pressure and social expectations play the central role and are a major influence in college students drinking behaviors. Twenty-eight undergraduate students …
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The Relationship of Social Context and Sensation Seeking to Indices to College Student Alcohol Abuse
… students at the State University of New York College at Brockport completed an anonymous questionnaire assessing the social context of college drinking and the personality trait known as sensation seeking. These measures were used to explain alcohol use intensity, frequency of alcohol impaired …
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Screening and Brief Intervention for Hazardous Alcohol Use: A Pilot Study in a College Counseling Center
<p>In the United States, college drinking has been identified as a public health concern. The pervasive and detrimental use of alcohol on college campuses inspired calls for wider implementation of empirically supported interventions in college settings. Despite strong evidence of the efficacy of …
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Stand-Alone Personalized Normative Feedback for College Student Drinkers: A Meta-Analytic Review, 2004 to 2014
… intervention for reducing alcohol use among college students. PNF uses norms clarification to correct drinking norms misperceptions by highlighting discrepancies between personal alcohol use, perceived peer alcohol use, and actual peer alcohol use. Previous reviews of personalized feedback …
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A Comparison of Descriptive and Injunctive Norms Brief Interventions for College Drinkers
<p>College drinking remains a major public health concern. One contributing factor is the overestimation by college students of their peers' alcohol use (DN: descriptive norm) and their peers' acceptability of excessive drinking (IN: injunctive norm). Normative re-education interventions have …
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No Man Is An Island: The Associations Between Social Networks, Acculturation, And Drinking Among College Students
… individuals are challenged with navigating the drinking norms of not just the culture of their heritage and the American mainstream culture, but also the college drinking culture. However, individuals do not learn about these norms and expectations on their own: Acculturation is an intercultural …
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Associations Between Drinking, Condom Use Resistance, and Condom Use Among College Students
… 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 consistent condom use protects …
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In Their Own Words: College Students Who Abstain From Drinking
… of the contours of the lives of undergraduate college students who abstain from drinking alcohol. Specifically, I explored the motivations, behaviors, and outcomes related to their choice not to drink. For purposes of this study, I defined motivations as the reasons for students' abstention. In …
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The influence of drinking consequences on alcohol expectancy likelihoods and valences: an item level multilevel approach
… We re-analyzed data from a sample of college students who drank in the past 12-months (n = 378), using Bayesian cross-classified multilevel ordinal regressions to estimate the associations between the experience of 39 different alcohol related consequences, participants’ expectancies …
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Do drinking consequences predict sexual revictimization in a college sample of binge-drinking women?
Sexual victimization is prevalent on college campuses in the US. A proportion of women experience multiple sexual assaults, and sexual assault risk in college is heightened among those with prior victimization histories. One risk factor for sexual revictimization is victims' alcohol use. Most …
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Comparison of Participatively-set and Assigned Goals in the Reduction of Alcohol Use
… one's goal. One hundred and twenty-six binge-drinking college students received a single cognitive-behavioral assessment/intervention session and completed measures of goal commitment, self-efficacy for goal achievement, and alcohol use. Results were consistent with, and expanded upon, …
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Goal setting and feedback in the reduction of heavy drinking in females
… brief intervention targeting reduction of heavy drinking in college females. Within the context of this brief intervention outcome study Bandura’s (1986) model of self-regulation was tested. Seventy-six heavy drinking college females (minimum of four drinking occasions during past month with …
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Identity Theory and College Hookup Culture
… is still somehow an almost unavoidable part of college life. The present study applies identity theory to the relatively new culture of sex and dating at college, more predominantly known as hookup culture, in order to examine the types of identities that might affect hookup behaviors. Identity …
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Misperception of alcohol norms: influence of others' comments on perception of norm drinking behaviors
… perception of how much everyone else is drinking. Already assuming that their peers are more comfortable with, and consume more, alcohol than they do, college students’ perception of norm alcohol use may be influenced by peer comments indicating approval / disapproval of alcohol use. …
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