Development of the protective behavioral strategies survey
Development of the protective behavioral strategies survey
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DOI：
10.15288/jsa.2005.66.698
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发表时间：
2005-09-01
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通讯作者：
Simmons, A
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作者：
Martens, MP;Ferrier, AG;Simmons, A
目的：大学生酗酒是美国大学校园的一个公共健康问题。解决这一问题的一个有希望的领域是确定保护性行为策略，这些策略可能会减少饮酒及其对确实选择饮酒的学生的负面后果。这项研究的目的是开发和进行一种新的量表的初步心理测量分析，我们将其命名为保护性行为策略调查方法：收集了来自美国东北部地区一所大型公立大学的437名本科生的数据，他们自愿参与了这项研究。结果：探索性因素分析得出3个有理论意义的因素，分别是限制/停止饮酒、饮酒方式和严重危害减少。作为一个整体，这三个因素与饮酒和与酒精相关的问题都显著相关，但饮酒方式和结果变量之间存在最强的独特关系。结论：保护性行为策略似乎是一个可测量的结构，与饮酒和酒精相关问题有关，因此可能是大学生干预和预防计划的有用组成部分。
Objective: Heavy alcohol use among college students represents a public health problem on American college campuses. A promising area for combating this problem is identifying protective behavioral strategies that may reduce consumption and its resulting negative consequences among students who do choose to use alcohol. The purpose of this study was to develop and conduct initial psychometric analyses on a new scale, which we named the Protective Behavioral Strategies Survey Method: Data were collected on 437 undergraduate students, who volunteered to participate in the study, at a large, public university in the northeast region of the United States. Results: Results from an exploratory factor analysis yielded three theoretically meaningful factors that we labeled Limiting/Stopping Drinking, Manner of Drinking and Serious Harm Reduction. The three factors were, as a group, significantly associated with both alcohol consumption and alcohol-related problems, but the strongest unique relationship existed between Manner of Drinking and the outcome variables. Conclusions: Protective behavioral strategies seem to be a measurable construct that are related to alcohol consumption and alcohol-related problems, and thus may be a useful component of intervention and prevention programs with college students.