ArticlePsychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors2015
Examining the role of abstainer prototype favorability as a mediator of the abstainer-norms-drinking-behavior relationship.
Article in Psychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
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- Experimental Test of Abstaining-and-Drinking Social Media Content on Adolescent and Young Adult Social Norms and Alcohol Use.Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs · 2023Trial
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- Prototype Specificity Matters When Predicting Later Alcohol-Related Content Posting and Alcohol Use Among Adolescent and Young Adults.Substance use & misuse · 2025Article
- Development and Validation of the Cheers Attitudes towards Non-drinkers Scale (CANS).Journal of health psychology · 2024Article
- Behavioral Willingness, Descriptive Normative Perceptions, and Prescription Stimulant Misuse among Young Adults 18-20.Substance use & misuse · 2022Article
- Perceptions of active and inactive prototypes are associated with objective measures of physical activity in adolescents.Psychology, health & medicine · 2020Article
- #drunktwitter: Examining the relations between alcohol-related Twitter content and alcohol willingness and use among underage young adults.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2018Article
- Prototype Willingness Model Drinking Cognitions Mediate Personalized Normative Feedback Efficacy.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2017Article
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Abstract
Past research has indicated that peer influence is associated with risky health behaviors, such as alcohol and other substance use (e.g., Maxwell, 2002; Santor, Messervey, & Kusumakar, 2000). Specifically, research has indicated that believing that more of one's peers use alcohol predicts more favorable prototypes (risk images) of the typical alcohol user (Litt & Stock, 2011; Teunissen et al., 2014). However, it is unclear if this same relationship would hold when considering abstainer (i.e., people who do not use alcohol) cognitions. The primary goal of the present study was to determine whether normative perceptions of peer abstinence from alcohol predict alcohol consumption and whether this relationship is mediated by abstainer prototypes. Results from 2,095 college students (42% male) indicated that the relation between abstainer norms and drinking behavior was mediated by abstainer prototypes such that believing that more peers abstained from alcohol use predicted more favorable prototypes of the typical alcohol abstainer, which in turn predicted lower alcohol use. Results from this study provide important first steps to delineating the relationship between abstainer cognitions and alcohol use. (PsycINFO Database Record
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