Sentence examples for drinking expectancies from inspiring English sources

Results: Structural equation modeling confirmed the evidence on drinking expectancies as predicted by boredom proneness and as predictive of adolescents' binge drinking.

Conclusions: In general, the results suggest that preventative interventions on alcohol misuse should focus on personality traits and underlying drinking expectancies.

Methods: A questionnaire designed to assess current drinking behavior, such as binge drinking, drinking expectancies and boredom proneness, was administered to 721 Italian adolescents (61% females) aged between 13 and 19 years (M = 15.98, SD = 1.61).

In particular, we tested a model of predictors of binge drinking focusing on boredom proneness; we also examined the predictive and mediating role of drinking expectancies on binge drinking.

Individual characteristics refer to demographic and psychological factors such as impulse control, self-efficacy, risk-taking propensity, and drinking expectancies.

The selection of different drinking environments seems to be correlated with a variety of different personal characteristics such as gender, age, and ethnicity and personal characteristics such as impulsivity, risk taking, drinking expectancies, and beliefs (Gruenewald et al. 2014).

For example, Cronce and Larimer (2011) reviewed a study by Weitzel and colleagues (2007) that compared 2 weeks of repeated (daily) assessment on a handheld (HH) computer plus tailored feedback on avoiding alcohol consequences, based on baseline levels of reported self-efficacy and drinking outcome expectancies, to repeated assessment alone.

Other reasons such as coping style, motives and expectancies of drinking, drinking context, and/or drinking location are associated with alcohol-related harms (30) and should be included in future research.

Thanks in part to lifelong heavy drinking, the life expectancy for the average Russian man is now about 60 years, just below that of Haiti.

In 2003, 1377 students were traced and assessed in alcohol outcome expectancy, drinking behavior, and alcohol related problems, with 1122 valid data (male = 438).

Additionally, although the relationship between sex-related alcohol expectancies and drinking has been established, the current study extends this research by investigating how gender and dating relationship status moderate the association between these expectancies and drinking behavior.