Lowering risk for early alcohol use by challenging alcohol expectancies in elementary school children
Lowering risk for early alcohol use by challenging alcohol expectancies in elementary school children
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DOI：
10.1037/0022-006x.71.3.493
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发表时间：
2003-06-01
影响因子：
5.9
通讯作者：
Dunn, ME
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作者：
Cruz, IY;Dunn, ME
改变酒精预期减少了年轻人的酒精使用，并可能导致成功预防早期酒精使用。作者将216名四年级儿童随机分配到期望挑战或控制条件下，并使用个体差异缩放将期望映射到记忆网络格式中，并使用偏好映射来模拟可能的关联路径。预期干预后，儿童表现出更大的可能性，将酒精使用与消极和镇静的后果，并降低可能性，将酒精与积极和唤起的后果。强调负面和镇静作用的儿童和成人不太可能使用酒精。因此，预期挑战干预措施已成功地改变预期，并随后减少成人的酒精消费量，可能有助于减少儿童早期饮酒的可能性。
Altering alcohol expectancies has reduced alcohol use among young adults and may lead to successful prevention of early alcohol use. The authors randomly assigned 216 4th-grade children to an expectancy challenge or control condition and used individual-differences scaling to map expectancies into memory network format, with preference mapping to model likely paths of association. After expectancy intervention, children exhibited a greater likelihood to associate alcohol use with negative and sedating consequences and a decreased likelihood to associate alcohol with positive and arousing consequences. Children and adults who emphasize negative and sedating effects have been found to be less likely to use alcohol. Therefore, expectancy challenge interventions that have been successful at modifying expectancies and subsequently decreasing alcohol consumption of adults may be useful in reducing the likelihood of early alcohol use among children.