Predictors of receptivity to an alcohol intervention among mandated students.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Students in violation of campus alcohol policy often must participate in an alcohol risk reduction intervention, and some mandated students express overt resistance to change. This study tested a priori hypotheses about psychological variables that might predict receptivity to an online brief alcohol intervention.

Method

Participants were 193 students (56% male, 88% underclassmen, 70% white) who were referred to the campus Office of Alcohol and Other Drugs after being cited for alcohol policy violations. Before their mandated online alcohol intervention, they completed a baseline assessment consisting of demographics and questionnaires about their alcohol use, attitudes toward moderate and heavy drinking, beliefs about the centrality of alcohol in college life, per

SUBMITTER: Carey KB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7572807 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature