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Showing 1 to 20 of 56 for “"heavy drinking"”.
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Goal setting and feedback in the reduction of heavy drinking in females
… a 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 …
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Episodic Heavy Drinking and Marijuana Use Among Undergraduate Students at Western Kentucky University
Research has documented that Episodic Heavy Drinking (EHD), defined as consuming four or more and five or more alcoholic drinks per drinking episode among females and males, respectively, is a prevalent risk behavior among undergraduate college students throughout the United States. Moreover, …
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Guy Time: The Effects Of Men's Male Friends On Their Heavy Drinking, Consensual Sexual Behaviors, And Sexual Assault Perpetration
… affect adolescents' and college students' heavy drinking, consensual sexual experiences, and sexual assaults. The construct of peer influence has been measured in many different ways, and little research has simultaneously considered peer influence on even two of the three outcomes in the …
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Development And Evaluation Of A Single-session Expectancy Challenge Intervention To Reduce Alcohol Use Among Heavy Drinking College Students
While overall rates of college student drinking have declined slightly since 1980, extreme forms of drinking are escalating. A comprehensive review of all aspects of alcohol use among college students completed by a panel of scientists and college presidents concluded that very few approaches for …
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Preliminary evidence that prenatal maternal choline supplementation protects the white matter microstructure of infants born to heavy-drinking women
… brain volume reductions in infants born to heavydrinking women. The impact of prenatal maternal choline supplementation on white matter (WM) microstructure – an area particularly vulnerable to PAE – has not been assessed. This project used diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) in 43 neonates born …
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The effect of anxious affect on drinking self-efficacy in college students
… of self-efficacy judgments 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 …
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Self-efficacy: Judgments of Ability or Willingness?
… expectancies in relation to college student drinking. In study 1, heavy-drinking college students were asked for efficacy judgments for limiting their heavy-drinking for increasing periods of time (e.g. 1 day, 1 week, 1 month, etc.). Students were also asked for efficacy judgments for …
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The Relationship Between Workplace Absenteeism and Alcohol Use: A Day-to-Day Examination
… absence would be more likely on days after heavy drinking than on days after nonheavy drinking. This investigation also explored: (a) whether the presence of an alcohol use disorder influences the day-to-day conditional relationship between alcohol use and subsequent workplace absence; (b) …
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Pour Her a Double (Standard): Moral Backlash as a Response to Drinking Double Standards
… to behave prosocially. We hypothesized that the heavy-drinking female actor would receive more moral backlash than the other experimental groups. College students (N=225) were randomly assigned to one of six conditions according to a 2 (male actor v. female actor) x 3 (sober v. light-drinking v. …
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Alcohol use among restaurant workers: An examination of the impact of work-related stress and workplace culture
… Results supported social learning theory, with heavy drinking being positively and negatively reinforced, having no significant deterrence, and thus established as normative behavior. Findings also suggest that more could be done to curb heavy drinking, particularly with regards to the cultural …
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Build it so they will come? Feasibility and efficacy of a gamified personalized normative feedback alcohol intervention for sexual minority women.
… women (SMW) disproportionately engage in heavy drinking and shoulder the burden of alcohol dependence. Much research has emphasized the need for culturally tailored alcohol interventions for this population, highlighting sexual minority stigma-related experiences, maladaptive coping, and …
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History, culture and alcohol: Drinking patterns in Poland and Australia
… that for centuries those in power have promoted heavy drinking among their subjects in order to achieve their various goals and that this contributed to the development of Polish drinking patterns. There is some empirical evidence that the political economy of alcohol in Poland promoted heavy …
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STATUS INTEGRATION AND ALCOHOL PROBLEMS IN THE UNITED STATES (STRESS)
… characterized by norms which encourage or allow drinking and intoxication as means relieving stress. Measures of status integration (MSI's) are intended as group level indicators of role conflict and indicators of chronic stressful conditions.</p><p>The theory of status integration is tested by …
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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
Heavy drinking has been consistently associated with negative legal, academic, and health problems in college students and recent studies suggest that the frequency of undergraduates experiencing alcohol related problems may be increasing. Research aimed at lowering rates of consumption has begun …
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Understanding Self-Efficacy for Alcohol Use: The Roles of Self-Monitoring and Hypothesized Source Variables
… population. Self-efficacy ratings for avoiding heavy drinking before and after self-monitoring of drinking behavior were examined in order to understand whether careful examination of current behavior would result in more informed self-efficacy judgments. Participants (N = 135) completed …
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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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A longitudinal examination of the impact of self-esteem on alcohol use in untreated heavy drinkers
… requirement to identify factors that reduce heavy drinking, due to the harm this level of drinking can cause. Most of the previous research has excluded heavy drinkers who are not alcohol dependent. The processes by which heavy drinking is maintained or reduced are thus unclear in this …
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Outcome and efficacy expectancies in college student drinking
… drinks per occasion and future frequency of heavy drinking occasions. outcome expectancies were unable to add to the prediction of future drinks per occasion or future frequency of heavy drinking occasions. Several of the drinking indices assessed in this study were individualized for each …
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Investigating relationships between maternal micronitrient intakes, dietary patterns and alcohol consumption during pregnancy
… the general population have also indicated that heavy drinking is associated with poorer quality diets. Aims: The aims of this thesis were to explore relationships between patterns of alcohol consumption and dietary intake during pregnancy, and to investigate whether they influence the risk of …
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College students' alcohol use, sexual aggression, and beliefs about sexual consent
… is the association between college students’ heavy drinking practices, reduced understanding and practice of sexual consent, and sexual aggression (e.g., coercion, unwanted physical contact, or rape). The aim of this study was to expand the current literature by assessing the degree to which …
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