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Erschienen in: Journal of Prevention 3/2019

15.04.2019 | Brief Report

Tailgating Protective Behavioral Strategies Mediate the Effects of Positive Alcohol Outcome Expectancies on Game Day Drinking

verfasst von: Amber M. Anthenien, Gereon Fredrickson, Nathaniel R. Riggs, Bradley T. Conner, John Jurica, Clayton Neighbors

Erschienen in: Journal of Prevention | Ausgabe 3/2019

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Abstract

Although a growing body of evidence suggests protective behavioral strategies are associated with lower alcohol use among college students, we know little about what contributes to students’ decisions to use these strategies. Alcohol outcome expectancies have been associated with alcohol use among college students, and may contribute to their decisions to use protective behavioral strategies while drinking in contexts associated with an elevated risk for heavy alcohol use. University football game tailgating is one high-risk context that has received limited empirical attention with respect to identifying risk and protective factors for use. We sought to determine whether expectancy effects on tailgating drinking may be attributable to the approach or avoidance of protective strategies in this context. We expected college students who perceive greater positive expectancies to report engaging in more protective strategies on game day, whereas we hypothesized greater negative expectancies would be associated with less use of protective strategies. College students (N = 231) reported outcome expectancies online within 7 days of tailgating and quantity of alcoholic drinks consumed while tailgating, as well as whether they used limiting consumption (i.e., counting drinks, alternating drinking water and alcohol) and harm reduction (HR; i.e., sober transportation) strategies 48 h after tailgating. Results indicated higher positive expectancies were associated with greater use of HR strategies. Positive expectancies were indirectly positively related to greater game day tailgating drinking and negatively to odds of abstaining through the use of protective strategies, and unique indirect effects were observed for HR strategies. These findings highlight important individual differences that contribute to the use of protective behaviors, and suggest that expectancy-challenge interventions may be tailored to address unsafe drinking practices and promote college student health.
Fußnoten
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Additional recruitment methods included class visits by the primary investigator.
 
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Measured as high school involvement in intramural sports (1 = yes, 0 = no), which has been demonstrated to be a better predictor of college drinking than college athletic involvement (Lisha & Sussman, 2010) and 81% (n = 206) of the sample reported being involved in athletics by this measure. Prior drinking history, measured using a 4-point Likert-type scale from 0 (do not drink) to 4 (having an average of 12 or more drinks per week), was weakly associated with game day drinking (r = .09, p = .007). Including this as a covariate, in addition to game day drinking, gender, and athletic involvement, reduced the association between positive expectancies and protective strategies from .43 (p = .003) to .29 (p = .076), but did not change remaining interpretations.
 
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Titel
Tailgating Protective Behavioral Strategies Mediate the Effects of Positive Alcohol Outcome Expectancies on Game Day Drinking
verfasst von
Amber M. Anthenien
Gereon Fredrickson
Nathaniel R. Riggs
Bradley T. Conner
John Jurica
Clayton Neighbors
Publikationsdatum
15.04.2019
Verlag
Springer US
Erschienen in
Journal of Prevention / Ausgabe 3/2019
Print ISSN: 2731-5533
Elektronische ISSN: 2731-5541
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10935-019-00548-1

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