Expectancy Challenge and Drinking Reduction: Structure and Process in Expectancy Challenge
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1998
Keywords
drinking expectancy challenge, alcohol expectancies & consumption, male undergraduates
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.1037/1064-1297.6.1.64
Abstract
Expectancies' mediational (control) role in alcohol consumption has been supported by both correlational and experimental evidence (J. Darkes & M. S. Goldman, 1993; M. S. Goldman, P. E. Greenbaum, & J. Darkes, 1997; L. Roehrich & M. S. Goldman, 1995). This study assigned participants (n = 54) to 1 of 2 expectancy challenges targeting the expectancy dimensions of either arousal or sociability identified by B. C. Rather and M. S. Goldman (1994), or to a no-treatment control, to examine the relationship of the structure and process of change in alcohol expectancies. Both challenges resulted in reduced consumption and expectancies immediately posttreatment and 6 weeks later after a short "booster" session. These results may reflect the lack of "discrete" expectancy structure and provide further support for the exploration of these methods as a possible prevention strategy.
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Yes
Citation / Publisher Attribution
Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology, v. 6, issue 1, p. 64-76
Scholar Commons Citation
Darkes, Jack and Goldman, Mark S., "Expectancy Challenge and Drinking Reduction: Structure and Process in Expectancy Challenge" (1998). Psychology Faculty Publications. 1381.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/psy_facpub/1381
