Trial reportPsychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors2024
Does self-affirmation augment the effects of a mandated personalized feedback intervention? A randomized controlled trial with heavy drinking college students.
Trial report in Psychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.
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- Effectiveness of a nurse-led telephonic brief intervention to reduce risky alcohol use among women in primary care in Brazil: a randomized controlled trial.Archives of women's mental health · 2026Trial
- Do hypothetical evaluations of alcohol related consequences change over time? Examining the influence of past and ongoing consequences.Addictive behaviors · 2024Trial
- Changes in Drinking Motives Do Not Mediate Reductions in Alcohol Use and Consequences Following a Brief Alcohol Intervention.Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs · 2026Article
- Alcohol-Induced Blackouts and Subsequent Drinking Trajectories: Evidence From Three Longitudinal Samples.Alcohol, clinical & experimental research · 2026Article
- A Systematic Review of Evidence-Based Interventions to Reduce Binge Drinking.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Longitudinal analysis for between- and within-person influences of descriptive alcohol drinking norms and attitudes on drinking outcomes.Alcohol, clinical & experimental research · 2025Article
- Effects of core self-evaluation on tobacco and alcohol use among left-behind children: mediating role of fear of missing out and moderating role of parental migration category and gender.BMC psychology · 2025Article
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Abstract
objectiveTheory and evidence indicate that affirming the value of the self before exposure to a threatening message fosters more open-minded appraisal of message content. We predicted that college students mandated to a computer-delivered personalized feedback intervention (PFI) and who engaged in a self-affirmation (SA) exercise would demonstrate reduce drinking and consequences relative to those who received an attention control.
methodParticipants were 484 undergraduates (age 18-24, 56% male, 78% White) mandated to participate in an alcohol intervention following a first-time alcohol policy violation. After a baseline assessment, each was randomized to SA (
resultsThe SA exercise increased positive self-evaluation at posttest (
conclusionsThe SA exercise did not differentially affect trajectories of alcohol use and consequences, despite evidence that the exercise had the predicted effect on participant's self-evaluations. The lack of SA effects could be attributed to a nonthreatening PFI intervention that is generally accepted among mandated students. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).
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