Population impact of reducing alcohol positive expectations on risky consumption and heavy episodic drinking among young people
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https://doi.org/10.20882/adicciones.1648Keywords:
Alcohol expectancies, heavy episodic drinking, emerging adulthood, alcohol drinking in college, college studentsAbstract
Expectations regarding alcohol consumption are the implicit or explicit beliefs that a person has on the consequences of his/her own consumption. Despite referring to the consequences of self-consumption, Miller et al. remind us that a person’s expectations regarding alcohol use are created even before the actual consumption has started (Miller, Smith & Goldman, 1990), probably generated from observation and deeply influenced by cultural norms. Having positive expectations regarding alcohol use has been related to higher levels of alcohol consumption, and the maintenance of them, while the opposite effect has been found for negative expectations (Carey, 1995; Linden, Lau-Barraco & Milletich, 2014).References
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