ArticleAddictive behaviors2014
I think I can't: drink refusal self-efficacy as a mediator of the relationship between self-reported drinking identity and alcohol use.
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24 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
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- Writing about the future self to shift drinking identity: An experimental investigation.Alcohol (Fayetteville, N.Y.) · 2024Trial
- Association between change in self-efficacy to resist drinking and drinking behaviors among an HIV-infected sample: Results from a large randomized controlled trial.Journal of health psychology · 2018Trial
- Qualitative analysis of how U.S. college students construct their alcohol-related content identities via social media.Substance abuse treatment, prevention, and policy · 2025Article
- Investigating cognitive and motivational proximal outcomes in a randomized clinical trial of writing about the future self to reduce drinking.Alcohol, clinical & experimental research · 2024Article
- The nomological network of drinker identity: A scoping review.Addictive behaviors · 2023Article
- Maturing Out: Between- and Within-Persons Changes in Social-Network Drinking, Drinking Identity, and Hazardous Drinking Following College Graduation.Clinical psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science · 2023Article
- A New Perspective on "Drinking" Self: A Network Approach to Characterizing Drinking-Related Changes in Personality.Substance use & misuse · 2022Article
- Learning from drinking experiences in college: A test of reciprocal determinism with drinking refusal self-efficacy.Psychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors · 2021Article
- Relationship between Alcohol Consumption and Drinking Refusal Self-Efficacy among University Students: The Roles of Sports Type and Gender.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
- Who cares if college and drinking are synonymous? Identification with typical students moderates the relationship between college life alcohol salience and drinking outcomes.Addictive behaviors · 2019Article
- A Multilevel Study of Alcohol Consumption in Young Adults: Self-Efficacy, Peers' Motivations and Protective Strategies.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2019Article
- Drinking refusal self-efficacy: Impacts on outcomes from a multi-site early intervention trial.Journal of child & adolescent substance abuse · 2019Article
- Self-efficacy, sensation seeking, right attitude, and readiness to change among alcohol drinkers in a Thai vocational school.Addictive behaviors reports · 2018Article
- Identity as a cannabis user is related to problematic patterns of consumption among emerging adults.Addictive behaviors · 2018Article
- A review of implicit and explicit substance self-concept as a predictor of alcohol and tobacco use and misuse.The American journal of drug and alcohol abuse · 2017Review
- Anticipating and addressing event-specific alcohol consumption among adolescents.BMC public health · 2016Article
- Relapse prediction: A meteorology-inspired mobile model.Health psychology open · 2016Review
- Multisubstance Use Among Treatment-Seeking Smokers: Synergistic Effects of Coping Motives for Cannabis and Alcohol Use and Social Anxiety/Depressive Symptoms.Substance use & misuse · 2016Article
- Latent Class Analysis of DSM-5 Alcohol Use Disorder Criteria Among Heavy-Drinking College Students.Journal of substance abuse treatment · 2015Article
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Abstract
This study examined the relationship between self-reported drinking identity (SRDI), defined as how closely individuals believe drinking is a crucial aspect of their identity (Conner, Warren, Close, & Sparks, 1999), and alcohol use by considering drink-refusal self-efficacy (DRSE) as a potential mediator. Based on previous findings, we expected that SRDI would be negatively associated with DRSE and positively associated with drinking, and that DRSE would be negatively linked with drinking. Further, we expected that DRSE would mediate the association between SRDI and drinking. Participants included 1069 undergraduate students (M age=22.93years, SD=6.29, 76.25% female) from a large southern university who completed computer-based study materials. Gender was associated with SRDI, each of the DRSE subscales, and drinking, indicating that males report greater SRDI, lower DRSE, and increased alcohol consumption. Consistent with expectations, SRDI was negatively linked with DRSE and positively linked with drinking. DRSE subscales were negatively associated with drinking. Further, four measurement models for latent variables were tested for SRDI and each of the three DRSE subscales. Results showed that the emotional relief and social subscales of DRSE mediated the association between SRDI and drinking, however this mediating relationship did not emerge for the opportunistic subscale. Implications of these results are discussed.
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