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Efficacy of expectancy challenge interventions to reduce college student drinking: a meta-analytic review.
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89 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 178 citations in OpenAlex.
- Pathways of personality and learning risk for addictive behaviors: A systematic review of mediational research on the acquired preparedness model.Journal of personality · 2023Pooled it
- Alcohol interventions for mandated college students: A meta-analytic review.Journal of consulting and clinical psychology · 2016Pooled it
- Interventions to reduce college student drinking: State of the evidence for mechanisms of behavior change.Clinical psychology review · 2015Pooled it
- Efficacy of alcohol interventions for first-year college students: a meta-analytic review of randomized controlled trials.Journal of consulting and clinical psychology · 2014Pooled it
- A randomized experiment of the effects of food advertisements on food-related emotional expectancies in adults.Journal of health psychology · 2023Trial
- Delivery of a Prevention Program in Large College Classes: Effectiveness of the Expectancy Challenge Alcohol Literacy Curriculum.Substance use & misuse · 2023Trial
- Effective prevention programming for reducing alcohol-related harms experienced by first year college students: Evaluation of the expectancy challenge alcohol literacy curriculum (ECALC).Addictive behaviors · 2022Trial
- The prospective interactive effects of alcohol expectancies and subjective response on future drinking behavior.Experimental and clinical psychopharmacology · 2022Trial
- Causal Effects of Alcohol Intoxication on Sexual Risk Intentions and Condom Negotiation Skills Among High-Risk Men Who Have Sex with Men (MSM).AIDS and behavior · 2019Trial
- Alcohol-induced performance impairment: a 5-year re-examination study in heavy and light drinkers.Psychopharmacology · 2017Trial
- Mandated college students' response to sequentially administered alcohol interventions in a randomized clinical trial using stepped care.Journal of consulting and clinical psychology · 2016Trial
- Changes in alcohol expectancy activation patterns precede onset of alcohol use in children.Psychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors · 2026Article
- A Longitudinal Analysis: The Moderating and Mediating Effect of Alcohol Outcome Expectancies on Traditional Masculine Gender Norms and Alcohol Use among Latino Immigrant Men.Psychology of men & masculinity · 2026Article
- Situational correlates of adolescents' alcohol outcome expectancies in daily life.Psychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors · 2025Article
- Common and uncommon risky drinking patterns in young adulthood uncovered by person-specific computational modeling.Psychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors · 2025Article
- The Influence of Drinking Consequences on Alcohol Expectancy Likelihoods and Valences: An Item-Level Multilevel Approach.Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs · 2025Article
- Difficulties with positive, but not negative, emotion regulation moderate the association between positive alcohol expectancies and alcohol use in college students.Addictive behaviors reports · 2025Article
- Are you feeling what I'm feeling? Momentary interactions between personal and perceived peer subjective response predict craving and continued drinking in young adults.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2025Article
- Psychometric Validation of the East Africa Alcohol Expectancy Scale (AFEXS) for Youth Living with HIV in Southwestern Uganda.AIDS and behavior · 2025Article
- Alcohol Expectancies for Sexual Enhancement, Event-Level Alcohol Use, and Likelihood of Sexual Aggression Perpetration: A Timeline Followback Approach.Journal of sex research · 2025Article
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Abstract
Interventions challenging alcohol expectancies may lead to reductions in alcohol consumption. We conducted a meta-analysis to examine the efficacy of alcohol expectancy challenge (EC) interventions for college alcohol abuse prevention. Included were 14 studies (19 EC interventions) that measured alcohol expectancies and consumption, provided sufficient information to calculate effect sizes, and were available as of June 2010 (N=1,415; M age=20 years; 40% women; 88% White). Independent raters coded participant characteristics, design and methodological features, and intervention content, and calculated weighted mean effect sizes at first follow-up, using both fixed and random effects models. Compared with controls, EC participants reported lower positive alcohol expectancies, reduced their alcohol use, and reduced their frequency of heavy drinking (d+s ranged from 0.23 to 0.28). Within-group improvements in alcohol expectancies and consumption emerged for the EC group only; relative to their own baseline, EC participants reported lower positive alcohol expectancies, reduced their alcohol use, and reduced their frequency of heavy drinking (d+s ranged from 0.13 to 0.36). Supplemental analyses found improvements in specific alcohol expectancies (social, sexual, tension, and arousal) both between groups and within group. The short-term effects of EC interventions on college student drinking are not maintained at follow-ups greater than 4 weeks.
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