Disinhibition and Undergraduate Drinking Behavior

描述（由申请人提供）：本研究旨在评估300名一年级本科生酒精相关问题的六个主要危险因素的预测效用。需要评估的因变量包括饮酒行为（即使用频率和数量）和与酒精有关的问题。要测试的六个主要独立变量（风险因素）是酒精和药物滥用的家族史、朋友的饮酒模式、压力（即生活事件和日常争吵）、与酒精使用相关的风险感知、酒精初始体验的效价和饮酒引起的抑制解除。所有变量将通过使用保密问卷进行评估。作为拟议研究的一部分，将构建一个旨在测量饮酒引起的抑制解除的量表。初步数据表明，该量表测量了三种类型的饮酒引起的去抑制和两类与去抑制相关的影响。参与者将被随机分配到以下两种情况中的一种：1)完成此问卷并填写一份无关的问卷，或2)接受开放式访谈，随后仅填写酒精问卷。访谈的目的是探讨学生饮酒模式随时间的稳定性和变化，并对上述变量进行有效性检查。对于该研究的前瞻性部分，参与者将在一年后被带回来完成此问卷的简短版本。拟议的研究有两个目标：确定与酒精相关问题相关的风险因素，以便正确识别可能存在风险的个人，并确定哪些个人特征应该成为干预努力的目标。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The proposed study is designed to assess the predictive utility of six primary risk factors for alcohol-related problems in a sample of 300 first-year undergraduates. Dependent variables to be assessed include drinking behavior (i.e., frequency and quantity of use) and alcohol-related problems. The six primary independent variables (risk factors) to be tested are family history of alcohol and drug abuse, friends' drinking pattern, stress (i.e., life events and daily hassles), perception of risk associated with alcohol use, valence of initial experience(s) with alcohol and drinking-induced disinhibition. All variables will be assessed through the use of a confidential questionnaire. As part of the proposed study, a scale designed to measure drinking-induced disinhibition will be constructed. Preliminary data suggests that this scale measures three types of drinking-induced disinhibition and two categories of effects related to disinhibition. Participants will be randomly assigned to one of two conditions: 1) completion of this and an unrelated questionnaire or 2) an open-ended interview followed by completion of the alcohol questionnaire only. The aim of the interview is to explore stability and change in students' drinking patterns over time and to serve as a validity check for the variables listed above. For the prospective component of the study, participants will be brought back one year later to complete a brief version of this questionnaire. There are two goals of the proposed study: to identify risk factors associated with alcohol-related problems in order to properly identify individuals who may be at risk and to determine which personal characteristics should be the target of intervention efforts.