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PMID: 21932066 Owner: NLM Status: Publisher |
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Research suggests that high school students who participate in sports may be at elevated risk for alcohol use compared to their non-athlete peers; however, reasons for this association are unclear. Alcohol expectancy theory posits that individuals who expect favorable outcomes to occur because of alcohol use are more likely to drink than those who do not endorse such beliefs. As such, the present study was designed to examine the associations of alcohol expectancy outcomes and valuations (i.e., beliefs about whether an outcome is good or bad), as well as alcohol expectancies related to sports functioning (e.g., alcohol's effects on one's ability to learn new plays and recover physically from sporting activities), with risky drinking among high school athletes. Participants were 219 in-season high school athletes (mean age = 15.6, range = 13-18) who completed anonymous self-report surveys. A structural equation model indicated that endorsement of positive alcohol expectancy outcomes and favorable evaluations of negative expectancy outcomes were associated with higher levels of risky drinking. Conversely, greater endorsement of negative athletic-functioning drinking expectancies was associated with lower levels of risky drinking. Future research considerations and implications for intervention efforts targeting high school athletes are discussed. |
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Byron L Zamboanga; Lindsay S Ham; Janine V Olthuis; Matthew P Martens; Joel R Grossbard; Kathryne Van Tyne |
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Type: JOURNAL ARTICLE Date: 2011-9-20 |
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Title: Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research Volume: - ISSN: 1573-6695 ISO Abbreviation: - Publication Date: 2011 Sep |
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Created Date: 2011-9-20 Completed Date: - Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 100894724 Medline TA: Prev Sci Country: - |
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Languages: ENG Pagination: - Citation Subset: - |
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Department of Psychology, Smith College, Northampton, MA, 01063, USA, bzamboan@smith.edu. |
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