College student heavy drinking in social contexts versus alone

Christiansen, Matthew A.; Vik, Peter W.; Jarchow, Amy

doi:10.1016/s0306-4603(01)00180-0

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“…Self-report measures of behaviour can be seen as less reliable than objective measures as they are vulnerable to the participant's introspection, honesty and correct recollection of their past behaviours (Christiansen, 2002). Thus, the findings of the current research programme would be strengthened if they were replicated using objective measures of both exercise behaviour and alcohol consumption.…”

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The moderating impact of self‐esteem on self‐affirmation effects

Düring

Jessop

2014

British J Health Psychol

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Objectives This study explored whether self‐esteem would moderate the effectiveness of a self‐affirmation manipulation at increasing openness to personally relevant health‐risk information. Design The study employed a prospective experimental design. Method Participants (N = 328) completed either a self‐affirmation manipulation or a control task, prior to reading information detailing the health‐related consequences of taking insufficient exercise. They then completed a series of measures assessing their cognitions towards exercise and their derogation of the information. Exercise behaviour was assessed at 1‐week follow‐up. Results Self‐esteem moderated the impact of self‐affirmation on the majority of outcomes. For participants with low self‐esteem, the self‐affirmation manipulation resulted in more positive attitudes and intentions towards exercise, together with lower levels of derogation of the health‐risk information. By contrast, there was no effect of the self‐affirmation manipulation on outcomes for participants with high self‐esteem. Conclusion Findings suggest that self‐affirmation manipulations might be of particular benefit for those with low self‐esteem in terms of promoting openness towards health‐risk information. This is promising from a health promotion perspective, as individuals with low self‐esteem often represent those most in need of intervention. What is already known on this subject? Self‐affirmation has been shown to result in more open processing of personally relevant health‐risk information. Individuals low in self‐esteem tend to process such information more defensively than those high in self‐esteem. What does this study add? It explores whether self‐esteem moderates the impact of self‐affirmation on responses to health‐risk information. Findings suggest that individuals with low self‐esteem benefit most from the self‐affirmation manipulation. This has important applied implications, as individuals with low self‐esteem may be most in need of intervention.

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The moderating impact of self‐esteem on self‐affirmation effects

Düring

Jessop

2014

British J Health Psychol

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“…Among college students, nonsocial drinking has been more strongly associated with both negative-mood-related drinking and drinking problems than has social drinking (Christiansen et al, 2002;Gonzalez & Skewes, 2012;Gonzalez et al, 2009;Mohr et al, 2005). Moreover, drinking in response to negative moods during adolescence has been shown to be associated with nonsocial alcohol use, which, in turn, predicts drinking problems approximately a decade later (Creswell et al, 2014).…”

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Perceived Racial Discrimination and Negative-Mood–Related Drinking Among African American College Students

O’Hara

Armeli

Scott

et al. 2015

J. Stud. Alcohol Drugs

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ABSTRACT. Objective:Research consistently shows a positive association between racial discrimination and problematic alcohol use among African Americans, but little is known about the micro-processes linking this pernicious form of stress to drinking. One possibility is that the cumulative effects of discrimination increase individuals' likelihood of negative-mood-related drinking. In the current study, we examined whether individual differences in lifetime perceived racial discrimination among African American college students moderate relations between daily negative moods and evening alcohol consumption in both social and nonsocial contexts. Method: Data came from an online daily diary study of 441 African Americans (58% female) enrolled at a historically black college/university. Lifetime discrimination was measured at baseline. For 30 days, students reported the number of drinks they consumed the night before both socially and nonsocially, as well as their daytime level of negative mood. Results: In support of the hypotheses, only men who reported higher (vs. lower) lifetime discrimination showed a positive association between daily negative mood and that evening's level of nonsocial drinking. Contrary to expectation, women who reported higher (vs. lower) discrimination showed a negative association between daily negative mood and nonsocial drinking. Neither daily negative mood nor lifetime discrimination predicted level of social drinking. Conclusions: These findings provide further evidence that the cumulative impact of racial discrimination may produce a vulnerability to negative-mood-related drinking-but only for African American men. Importantly, these effects emerged only for nonsocial drinking, which may further explain the robust association between discrimination and problematic alcohol use. (J. Stud. Alcohol Drugs, 76, 229-236, 2015)

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“…Young people often consume alcohol in social contexts, such as dinners and parties, and alcohol consumption is often referred to as a social activity [8,10,11]. Moreover, research has shown that alcohol consumption plays a large part in young peoples' social lives and social identity exploration [12].…”

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“…Both alcohol consumption and social media use are inherently social [10]. It is therefore surprising that no study to date has explored the social content displayed in alcoholposts.…”

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Social Drinking on Social Media: Content Analysis of the Social Aspects of Alcohol-Related Posts on Facebook and Instagram (Preprint)

Hendriks¹,

Putte²,

Gebhardt³

et al. 2017

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Background: Alcohol is often consumed in social contexts. An emerging social context in which alcohol is becoming increasingly apparent is social media. Young people increasingly display alcohol-related posts ("alcoholposts") on social networking sites such as Facebook and Instagram. Objective: Considering the importance of social aspects for both alcohol consumption as well as social media use, the current study investigated (1) the social content of alcoholposts (i.e., the evaluative social context and presence of people) and (2) social processes (i.e., the posting of and reactions to posts) involved with alcoholposts on social networking sites. Methods: An extensive content analysis of Facebook and Instagram-profiles (N = 192) was conducted. Results: It was shown that the alcoholposts of youth frequently depicted alcohol in a positive social context and displayed people holding drinks. In addition, alcoholposts were more often placed on participants' timelines by others (i.e., by tagging) than they were posted by participants themselves. Furthermore, it was revealed that such social posts received more likes and comments than non-social posts (e.g., in which no people were visible). Conclusions: Thus, both in terms of content as well as processes, alcoholposts on social media are social in nature, and a part of young people's everyday social lives.Interventions aiming to decrease alcoholposts should therefore focus on the broad social context of individuals in which posting about alcohol takes place. Europe and the United States showed that 35% of youth who consume alcohol had at least one binge drinking episode in the past month [5][6][7]. This high prevalence of alcohol use and the multitude of negative related consequences increase the need to gain more insight into the context in which this behavior takes place. Research has shown that alcohol is often consumed in social contexts [8]. Moreover, an emerging social context in which alcohol is becoming increasingly apparent is that of the social media. That is, young people increasingly display alcohol-related posts ("alcoholposts") on social networking sites such as Facebook and Instagram [9]. The current study investigates these alcoholposts on social media, and how social these posts actually are, by conducting a content analysis of alcoholposts on Instagram and Facebook among 192 adolescents and young adults. The social context of alcoholYoung people often consume alcohol in social contexts, such as dinners and parties, and alcohol consumption is often referred to as a social activity [8,10,11]. Moreover, research has shown that alcohol consumption plays a large part in young peoples' social lives and social identity exploration [12]. Furthermore, many studies have shown that social norms are strongly related to adolescent alcohol use, especially when these norms originate from peers [2]. The importance of the social environment for alcohol consumption is also apparent from the vast amount of research demonstrating the effects of peer influence a...

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College student heavy drinking in social contexts versus alone

Cited by 150 publications

References 28 publications

The moderating impact of self‐esteem on self‐affirmation effects

The moderating impact of self‐esteem on self‐affirmation effects

Perceived Racial Discrimination and Negative-Mood–Related Drinking Among African American College Students

Social Drinking on Social Media: Content Analysis of the Social Aspects of Alcohol-Related Posts on Facebook and Instagram (Preprint)

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