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Do Protective Behavioral Strategies Mediate the Relationship Between Drinking Motives and Alcohol Use in College Students
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This study suggests that protective behavioral strategies (PBS) should be incorporated into theoretical models devoted to understanding college student drinking.Abstract:
Objective: Heavy alcohol use among college students represents a public health problem on American college campuses Use of protective behavioral strategies (PBS) has been shown to be related to reduced alcohol use and fewer alcohol-related problems, but the relationship of PBS to other alcohol-related constructs is unclear The purpose of this study was to determine whether the use of PBS mediated the relationship between positively and negatively reinforcing drinking motives and both alcohol use and alcohol-related problems Method: Data were collected on 254 undergraduate students at a large, public university in the northeast region of the United States Approximately one third (n = 90) of the participants were volunteers, whereas the remaining individuals enrolled in the study as an option for satisfying an alcohol-related campus judicial sanction Results: Structural equation modeling analyses indicated that use of PBS partially mediated the relationships between positively reinforcing (ie, socialread more
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Use of alcohol protective behavioral strategies among college students: a critical review.
TL;DR: A comprehensive review of the PBS literature found inconsistency across studies in terms of how the use of PBS is operationalized and found only two PBS measures with good psychometric properties that have been replicated.
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Mobile phone brief intervention applications for risky alcohol use among university students: a randomized controlled study
Mikael Gajecki,Anne H. Berman,Kristina Sinadinovic,Ingvar Rosendahl,Claes Andersson,Claes Andersson +5 more
TL;DR: Smartphone apps can make brief interventions available to large numbers of university students and one app may have led to a negative effect among men, although the apps studied using eBAC calculation did not appear to affect alcohol consumption among university students.
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Protective behavioral strategies mediate the effect of drinking motives on alcohol use among heavy drinking college students: Gender and race differences
TL;DR: Findings indicate that PBS use leads to reductions in drinking despite pre-established drinking motives, hence pointing to the potential value of standalone PBS skills training interventions in lowering alcohol use among diverse groups of heavy drinking college students.
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Protective behavioral strategies and the relationship between depressive symptoms and alcohol-related negative consequences among college students.
Matthew P. Martens,Jessica L. Martin,E. Suzanne Hatchett,Roneferiti M. Fowler,Kristie M. Fleming,Michael A. Karakashian,M. Dolores Cimini +6 more
TL;DR: Results from structural equation modeling analyses indicated that use of PBS partially mediated the relationship between depressive symptoms and alcohol-related negative consequences among college students.
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Drinking motives, drinking restraint and drinking behaviour among young adults.
TL;DR: Examination of the relationships between drinking motives, drinking restraint and both alcohol consumption and alcohol-related problems in a sample of young adults revealed that coping, enhancement and social motives were related to alcohol consumption, while Cognitive and Emotional Preoccupation with drinking was related to all criterion variables.
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