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How does the Brief CEOA match with self-generated expectancies in mandated students?
Colleen Peterson1, Brian Borsari, Nadine R Mastroleo
1Department of Behavioral and Social Sciences, Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies, Brown University, Box G-S121-5, Providence, RI 02912, United States. colleen_peterson@brown.edu
Addictive Behaviors
|September 26, 2012
Summary
Current alcohol expectancy measures may miss key beliefs of mandated college students. Self-generated expectations highlight physiological effects, unlike existing tools focusing on intrapersonal factors.
Area of Science:
- Psychology
- Addiction Research
- Student Health
Background:
- Alcohol expectancies, beliefs about drinking's effects, influence consumption and problem drinking in college students.
- Existing measures may not capture mandated students' unique alcohol expectations.
- Assessing these beliefs is crucial for understanding and intervening in student alcohol use.
Purpose of the Study:
- To evaluate how well the Brief Comprehensive Effects of Alcohol (B-CEOA) scale captures expectancies from mandated college students.
- To identify potential gaps in current measures for this specific population.
- To inform the development of more comprehensive alcohol expectancy assessments.
Main Methods:
- Collected 412 self-generated alcohol expectancies from 64 mandated college students.
- Raters matched self-generated expectancies to B-CEOA items based on qualitative essence.
- Unmatched expectancies were categorized thematically using existing alcohol expectancy literature.
Main Results:
- The B-CEOA failed to represent most self-generated expectancies from mandated students.
- Mandated students' expectancies primarily focused on physiological effects of alcohol.
- The B-CEOA predominantly assesses expectancies related to intrapersonal factors.
Conclusions:
- The B-CEOA may not adequately encompass the alcohol expectancies relevant to mandated student populations.
- Self-generated expectancies reveal a focus on physiological effects not well-covered by the B-CEOA.
- Future expectancy questionnaires should incorporate self-generated expectancies from diverse student groups, particularly mandated ones.
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