Know Your Safe Drinking Skills: Adaptation Strategies for the College Effect

Carolyn A. Lin, John L. Christensen and Anne Borsai Basaran
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Carolyn A. Lin: Department of Communication, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Mansfield, CT 06269-1295, USA
John L. Christensen: Department of Communication, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Mansfield, CT 06269-1295, USA
Anne Borsai Basaran: Department of Communication, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Mansfield, CT 06269-1295, USA

Social Sciences, 2022, vol. 11, issue 1, 1-17

Abstract: Objective: The current study investigates the effects of an alcohol-prevention program delivered to college students in a formal classroom setting. Participants: The sample comprised 231 first-year college students who enrolled in a multisection “First Year Experience” course at a large northeastern university in the United States. Method: A naturalistic experiment was conducted, with a baseline evaluation at the beginning of the semester and a post-experiment evaluation near the end of the semester. Results: Social drinking attitudes, proximal drinking norm and the college effect are significant predictors of pre- and post-intervention episodic drinking frequency. The intervention reduced episodic drinking frequency as well as perceived distal and proximal drinking norms. It also increased drinking attitudes and did not change perceived efficacy or drinking-outcome expectancies. Conclusions: Practitioners could consider implementing a similar intervention to allow students to learn and practice safe drinking skills in the first year of their college life.

Keywords: adaptation strategies; alcohol prevention; college effect; naturalistic experiment; theory of planned behavior (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A B N P Y80 Z00 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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