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Nicole M McBride1, Blake Barrett, Kathleen A Moore
1a Summer Research Institute Fellow, Louis de la Parte Florida Mental Health Institute , University of South Florida , Tampa , Florida.
Objective:
This study explored associations between positive alcohol expectancies, and demographics, as well as academic status and binge drinking among underage college students.
Participants:
A sample of 1,553 underage college students at 3 public universities and 1 college in the Southeast who completed the Core Alcohol and Drug Survey in the Spring 2013 semester.
Methods:
A series of bivariate analyses and logistic regression models were used to examine associations between demographic and academic status variables as well as positive alcohol expectancies with self-reported binge drinking. Positive alcohol expectancies were examined in multivariable models via 2 factors derived from principal component analyses.
Results:
Students who endorsed higher agreement of these 2 emergent factors (sociability, sexuality) were more likely to report an occurrence of binge drinking in the past 2 weeks.
Conclusions:
Study results document associations between positive alcohol expectancies and binge drinking among underage students; implications for prevention and treatment are discussed.
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