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Fitting in and standing out: Increasing the use of alcohol protective behavioral strategies with a deviance regulation intervention
Fitting in and standing out: Increasing the use of alcohol protective behavioral strategies with a deviance regulation intervention
- Source :
- Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology. 83:482-493
- Publication Year :
- 2015
- Publisher :
- American Psychological Association (APA), 2015.
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Abstract
- OBJECTIVE: Heavy alcohol use remains a consistent public health concern on college campuses. The current pilot study used deviance regulation theory (DRT) to modify protective behavioral strategies (PBS) among college student drinkers to reduce alcohol use and alcohol-related consequences. METHOD: The sample was comprised of current college student drinkers (n = 76; 53.95% female) ranging in age from 18-24 (M = 19.29, SD = 1.42). Participants were randomly assigned to receive a positively or negatively framed message. They then reported on use of alcohol PBS (via the Protective Behavioral Strategies Scale), alcohol consumption (via the Modified Daily Drinking Questionnaire), and alcohol-related consequences (via the Young Adult Alcohol Consequences Questionnaire) each week for 6 weeks. RESULTS AND CONCLUSIONS: Among drinkers with low PBS use norms, a positively, versus a negatively, framed message resulted in increased PBS use and consequently less alcohol consumption and fewer alcohol-related consequences. Among drinkers with high PBS use norms, a negatively, versus positively, framed message resulted in increased PBS use and consequently lower alcohol consumption and fewer alcohol-related consequences. However, these effects were only relevant among those who strongly believed the DRT frame. FINDINGS suggest assigning drinkers to frames based on perceived PBS use norms and increasing belief in the frame may be 1 approach to increasing responsible drinking patterns among college students. Furthermore, the current data suggests important boundary conditions for norm-based interventions. (PsycINFO Database Record Language: en
- Subjects :
- Male
medicine.medical_specialty
Adolescent
Alcohol Drinking
Universities
Health Behavior
education
Psychological intervention
Alcohol abuse
Poison control
Pilot Projects
Health Promotion
Suicide prevention
Article
Young Adult
Risk Factors
Surveys and Questionnaires
Injury prevention
medicine
Humans
Students
Psychiatry
Human factors and ergonomics
Alcohol Drinking in College
medicine.disease
Psychiatry and Mental health
Clinical Psychology
Female
Norm (social)
Psychology
Alcoholic Intoxication
Deviance (sociology)
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 19392117 and 0022006X
- Volume :
- 83
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....503dfcb681aeac3d0d0d2053e231d38c
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1037/a0038902