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- Fossos-Wong, Nicole, et al.
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Changes in Alcohol Expectancies, Drinking and Alcohol-Related Negative Consequences in the Transition out of High School
- 2014
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Ingår i: Alcoholism. - : John Wiley & Sons. - 0145-6008 .- 1530-0277. ; 38:s1, s. 59A-59A
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The transition fromadolescence to emerging adulthood is a period of increased risk for heavy drinking behavior. Prior research has found that college students drink more and experience more consequences than their non-college counterparts. However, sparse research has examined whether students who are college- versus work-bound show differences in drinking and related consequences in high school (HS) as well. In addition, little research has explored whether alcohol expectancies also change over time as a function of selection into college versus non-college environments. The current study examined whether alcohol-related expectancies, consequences, and drinking changed over the course of a year as a function of whether participants transitioned into a four-year university (UNI), community college/trade school (CC), or workforce setting (WF). Participants (N=848) were HS seniors (mean age=17.5 years; 37%male, 73%Caucasian) taking part in a larger study examining alcohol use trajectories.Measures included alcohol expectancies (CEOA), drinking (DDQ), and alcohol-related problems (RAPI) assessed during their senior year and one year later. Repeatedmeasures ANOVAs revealed significant main effects for time, indicating increases in drinks per week F(1, 807)=19.18, p>0.001 and alcohol-related problems F(1, 808)=8.78, p>0.01 and a decrease in alcohol expectancies F(1, 808)=14.35, p>0.001 from baseline to 12 month follow-up. Results also found a main effect for group, indicating UNI students held higher expectancies F(2, 808)=8.15, p>0.001 and drank more F(2, 807)=6.26, p>0.01 than other participants. A significant time9group interaction showed that whereas UNI-bound students drank less thanWF-bound students in HS, the roles reversed one year later with UNI students drinking more thanWF students F (2, 807)=27.56, p>0.001. Similarly, WF-bound students had more alcohol-related problems in HS followed by CC-bound students and UNI-bound students, but one year later the order reversed with UNI students exhibiting the most alcohol-related problems F(2, 807)=5.21, p>0.01. Results indicate that whereas UNI-bound seniors exhibit the highest expectancies, drink less, and experience fewer problems during HS, upon entry into UNI, they experience more problems and out-drink their CC andWF counterparts. These results highlight the importance of prevention strategies, including an expectancy challenge component, especially for UNI-bound HS seniors.
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- Larimer, Mary E, et al.
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An International Comparison of a Web-Based Personalized Feedback Intervention for Alcohol use During the Transition out of High School in the United States and Sweden.
- 2021
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Ingår i: Prevention Science. - : Springer. - 1389-4986 .- 1573-6695. ; 22, s. 670-682
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Young adult drinkers engage in a range of drinking patterns from abstaining to heavy drinking in both the United States and Sweden. Heavy drinking during young adulthood in both countries is associated with a variety of negative consequences. Personalized feedback interventions have been identified as effective prevention strategies to prevent or reduce heavy drinking in the United States. This study examined transitions in drinking profiles and compared the efficacy of a personalized feedback intervention for 3965 young adults in the United States (1,735) and Sweden (2230) during their transition out of high school. Using goodness-of-fit criteria, results indicated that three drinking profiles exist among young adults transitioning out of high school: very low drinkers/abstainers, moderate to heavy drinkers, and very heavy drinkers. Latent Markov models revealed a moderating effect of country on personalized feedback intervention such that intervention condition participants in the United States were more likely to belong to the light drinker/abstainer or moderate to heavy profile relative to the very heavy drinking profile at 6-month follow-up. There was no significant effect of personalized feedback intervention in Sweden. Future research could investigate the impact of when personalized feedback interventions are administered and could examine if personalized feedback interventions should be more intentionally culturally adapted in order to be more effective.
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- Polo-Rodriguez, A., et al.
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A Mobile Application with Geolocation and Virtual Rewards for Promoting Social Skills in People with Social Disorders
- 2021
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Ingår i: Research and Innovation Forum 2021. - : Springer. - 9783030843106 - 9783030843113 ; , s. 79-87
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- The objective of this work is presenting a mobile platform for improving the individual development of social skills of people with mental disorders, offering them a mobile application which promotes independence and enhances social and cognitive abilities by means of geolocation and ludic reward. First, in order to improve the independence of the people with mental disorders we promote outings and physical activity by means of a mobile application which provides a personal map where familiar living places are located. In the map, the current location of the user is referenced between the familiar places. Additionally, the location is collected in a cloud server, where relatives and caregivers can locate him/her in case of need by SMS. Second, in order to improve their social skills, a mobile system of ludic rewards has been implemented using NFC tags. In this way, when the person with social disorder fulfills his/her tasks properly, the caregiver or family member brings closer an NFC tag with the value of the corresponding reward to the smartphone. So, the person with disabilities is able to check in the mobile application the reward points which he/she keeps based on his/her middle-term behavior. The virtual ludic money allows the child or person to enjoy activities, such as, watching TV, subtracting those points when they spend this reward. The system is developed as an easily scalable and configurable module to enable the personalization of parameters for each person with social disorder.
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