The dynamic nature of injunctive drinking norms and within-person associations with college student alcohol use.

ABSTRACT: Objective: Perceptions of friends' approval of drinking behaviors (i.e., injunctive drinking norms) play a central role in shaping college students' alcohol use behaviors. However, we know little about the extent that students' perceptions of friends' approval fluctuate over time and whether there are within-person associations between these injunctive norms and alcohol use. To fill this knowledge gap, we estimated within-person variability in perceptions of friends' approval of alcohol use across a 12-month period and examined within-person associations between perceptions of friends' approval and 3 discrete drinking behaviors: number of weekly drinks, hazardous drinking behaviors, and peak estimated blood-alcohol content (peak-eBAC). Method: A sample of colleg

SUBMITTER: Graupensperger S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8666800 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature