ArticleAddictive behaviors2015
Friend or foe: Personal use and friends' use of protective behavioral strategies and spring break drinking.
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- A systematic review of the associations between protective behavioral strategies and heavy alcohol consumption and consequences among young adults.Psychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors · 2024Pooled it
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- Protective behavioral strategies and planned drinking relate to high intensity drinking and consequences at the day level.Addictive behaviors · 2026Article
- Designing an Online and Text-Messaging Intervention to Enhance Protective Behavioral Strategy Utilization at the Daily Level Among Young Adults Engaged in Alcohol and Cannabis Use.Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs · 2026Article
- Daily-Level Associations Between Situational Familiarity With Location and People and Use of Alcohol-Related Protective Behavioral Strategies Among Adolescents and Young Adults.Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs · 2025Article
- Insights into the context of simultaneous alcohol and cannabis use among young adults.Experimental and clinical psychopharmacology · 2023Article
- Criterion Validity of Protective Behavioral Strategies for Alcohol Consumption among College Students: Comparison across Two Measures.Substance use & misuse · 2023Article
- Friendship Conflict, Drinking to Cope, and Alcohol-Related Problems: A Longitudinal Actor-Partner Interdependence Model.Emerging adulthood (Print) · 2022Article
- Investigating Why and How Young Adults Use Protective Behavioral Strategies for Alcohol and Marijuana Use: Protocol for Developing a Randomized Controlled Trial.JMIR research protocols · 2022Article
- The link between planning and doing: Daily-level associations between college students' plans for and use of alcohol-related protective behavioral strategies.Psychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors · 2021Article
- Examining the associations between alcohol-related parental communication, alcohol use, and protective behavioral strategy use among young adults.Addictive behaviors · 2020Article
- Simultaneous Alcohol and Marijuana Use Among College Students: Patterns, Correlates, Norms, and Consequences.Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research · 2019Article
- Perceived vulnerability moderates the relations between the use of protective behavioral strategies and alcohol use and consequences among high-risk young adults.Addictive behaviors · 2018Article
- A daily diary examination of caffeine mixed with alcohol among college students.Health psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association · 2017Article
- Resilience, tipping, and hydra effects in public health: emergent collective behavior in two agent-based models.BMC public health · 2016Article
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Abstract
The present study examined associations between use of protective behavioral strategies (PBS) by college students and their friends and drinking-related outcomes during Spring Break (SB). Moreover, this study examined the influence of friends' own PBS use on participants' PBS use during SB. Participants included college students (N = 694) and their nominated friends (N = 131) who were part of a larger study of SB drinking. Data were collected via web-based surveys that participants and friends took after SB, which assessed SB PBS, drinking, and related negative consequences. Results indicated that higher levels of Serious Harm Reduction (SHR) strategies and Limiting/Stopping (LS) strategies were associated with increased consumption, higher likelihood of experiencing any consequences, and an increased number of consequences. A different pattern emerged for Manner of Drinking (MD) strategy use; participants utilizing higher levels of MD strategies drank less and had fewer consequences. LS and MD strategies used by the participant's friends appeared to have less of an impact on the participant's drinking outcomes. However, greater friends' use of SHR strategies was associated with increased alcohol use by the participant, but not with consequences. Greater friends' use of SHR strategies was associated with greater SHR strategy use by the participant. Friends' LS and MD strategies were not associated with participant drinking, consequences, or PBS. These findings highlight the potential utility of interventions that focus on drinking behaviors on specific high-risk occasions for those at risk as well as for their friends.
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