The Role of Sex-specific Normative Beliefs in Undergraduate Alcohol Use

Thombs, Dennis L.; J, Ray-Tomasek; Osborn, Cynthia J.; Olds, R. Scott

doi:10.5993/ajhb.29.4.6

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“…This is similar to the misperceptions found at analogous American colleges (e.g. Thombs et al 2005), which is of interest given the legal and cultural differences between the two countries (Delk and Meilman 1996).…”

Section: Social Norms Research Outside Of the Usasupporting

confidence: 63%

The international development of the ‘Social Norms’ approach to drug education and prevention

McAlaney

Bewick

Hughes

2010

Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy

127

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The international development of the 'Social Norms' approach to drug education and prevention AbstractThe social norms approach to health promotion has become remarkably popular in the last 20 years, particularly in the American college system. It is an alternative to traditional fear based approaches of health education, which a growing body of research demonstrates is often ineffective in reducing alcohol and drug misuse. The social norms approach differs by recognising that individuals, particularly young adults, tend to overestimate how heavily and frequently their peers consume alcohol, and that these perceptions lead them to drink more heavily themselves than they would otherwise do. Similar misperceptions have been found in a range of other health and non-health behaviours. The social norms approach aims to reduce these misperceptions, and thus personal consumption, through the use of media campaigns and personal feedback. Although the numbers of completed social norms projects outside the USA is small the evidence from them is that the approach can be equally effective in both European and Australian contexts. It is also acknowledged that as an emergent field there are limitations to the current social norms literature. There is a lack of randomised control trial studies, a lack of clarity of the role of referent groups and a need to better understand the processes through which misperceptions are transmitted. However despite these issues the social norms approach represents a new avenue for reducing alcohol and drug related harm and is an area which merits further research.

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Section: Social Norms Research Outside Of the Usasupporting

confidence: 63%

The international development of the ‘Social Norms’ approach to drug education and prevention

McAlaney

Bewick

Hughes

2010

Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy

127

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“…Emails with the same information were sent at follow-up. The response rate was 66%, which is consistent with other web-delivered approaches with college populations (Larimer et al, 2007;McCabe et al, 2005;Thombs et al, 2005). Assessments were collected at two time points: (a) baseline (during the summer before college matriculation) and (b) follow-up (during the fall of the second year of college [15 months later]).…”

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confidence: 80%

Using Parental Profiles to Predict Membership in a Subset of College Students Experiencing Excessive Alcohol Consequences: Findings From a Longitudinal Study

Varvil-Weld

Mallett

Turrisi

et al. 2012

J. Stud. Alcohol Drugs

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ABSTRACT. Objective: Previous research identifi ed a high-risk subset of college students experiencing a disproportionate number of alcoholrelated consequences at the end of their fi rst year. With the goal of identifying pre-college predictors of membership in this high-risk subset, the present study used a prospective design to identify latent profi les of student-reported maternal and paternal parenting styles and alcoholspecifi c behaviors and to determine whether these profi les were associated with membership in the high-risk consequences subset. Method: A sample of randomly selected 370 incoming fi rst-year students at a large public university reported on their mothers' and fathers' communication quality, monitoring, approval of alcohol use, and modeling of drinking behaviors and on consequences experienced across the fi rst year of college. Results: Students in the high-risk subset comprised 15.5% of the sample but accounted for almost half (46.6%) of the total consequences reported by the entire sample. Latent profi le analyses identifi ed four parental profi les: positive pro-alcohol, positive anti-alcohol, negative mother, and negative father. Logistic regression analyses revealed that students in the negative-father profi le were at greatest odds of being in the high-risk consequences subset at a follow-up assessment 1 year later, even after drinking at baseline was controlled for. Students in the positive pro-alcohol profi le also were at increased odds of being in the high-risk subset, although this association was attenuated after baseline drinking was controlled for. Conclusions: These fi ndings have important implications for the improvement of existing parent-and individual-based college student drinking interventions designed to reduce alcohol-related consequences. (J. Stud. Alcohol Drugs, 73, 434-443, 2012)

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“…It is also possible that, along with composition changes, same-gender peer drinking becomes more salient over time. Indeed, it has been found that same-sex peer norms have a greater infl uence on drinking behavior than opposite-sex peers (Lewis and Neighbors, 2004;Thombs et al, 2005). Therefore, men may be attending to the norms of their male peers, whereas women are attending to those of their female peers, and this may become stronger over time.…”

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Daily Relationship Between Event-Specific Drinking Norms and Alcohol Use: A Four-Year Longitudinal Study

O’Grady¹,

Cullum²,

Tennen³

et al. 2011

J. Stud. Alcohol Drugs

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ABSTRACT. Objective: This study examined how social-infl uence processes operate during specifi c drinking contexts as well as the stability and change in these processes throughout the college years. Method: Using a measurement-burst design, a hybrid of longitudinal and daily diary methods, we assessed the relationship between event-specifi c descriptive drinking norms and personal drinking. College students (N = 523) completed a baseline survey followed by a 30-day daily diary each year for up to the 4 study years. The baseline survey assessed participant gender and social anxiety, and the daily survey assessed personal drinking and perceived peer drinking (i.e., event-specifi c descriptive norms) during social drinking events. Results: Multilevel modeling revealed that men's social drinking slightly increased over the 4 years, whereas women's drinking remained steady. Further, on social drinking days when event-specifi c descriptive norms were high, students drank more, but this relationship was stronger for men than women and did not change over time. However, men's drinking norm perceptions increased across years, whereas women's decreased. Social anxiety did not moderate the relationship between norms and drinking. Conclusions: We demonstrate that although gender differences exist in the stability and change of personal drinking, norms, and normative infl uence on drinking across the years of college, the acute social infl uence of the norm on personal drinking remains a stable and important predictor of drinking throughout college. Our fi ndings can assist with the identifi cation of how, when, and for whom to target social infl uence-based interventions aimed at reducing drinking. (J. Stud. Alcohol Drugs, 72, 633-641, 2011)

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The Role of Sex-specific Normative Beliefs in Undergraduate Alcohol Use

Abstract: Pre-weekend goals to limit drinking predicts fewer weekend binge episodes among young adults with problem drinking.

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The international development of the ‘Social Norms’ approach to drug education and prevention

The international development of the ‘Social Norms’ approach to drug education and prevention

Using Parental Profiles to Predict Membership in a Subset of College Students Experiencing Excessive Alcohol Consequences: Findings From a Longitudinal Study

Daily Relationship Between Event-Specific Drinking Norms and Alcohol Use: A Four-Year Longitudinal Study

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