A Motivational Perspective on Alcohol Use and Sexual Behavior

关于饮酒和性行为的动机观点

• 批准号: 7328307
• 负责人: Megan Elizabeth Patrick
• 金额: $ 3.45万
• 依托单位: PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY, THE
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-08-16 至 2008-08-15
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7328307
• 关键词: Address; Adult; Alcohol consumption; Alcohols; Behavior; Behavioral; Characteristics; Cluster Analysis; Cognition; Daily; Data; Development; Epidemiology; Event; Expectancy; Frequencies; Health; Heavy Drinking; Individual; Influentials; Injury; Intervention; Investigation; Knowledge; Link; Literature; Marketing; Modeling; Motivation; Numbers; Online Systems; Patient Self-Report; Pattern; Persons; Prevention Research; Public Health; Reporting; Research; Research Proposals; Risk; Role; Score; Sex Behavior; Sexual Partners; Sexually Transmitted Diseases; Specific qualifier value; Unwanted pregnancy; Variant; alcohol poisoning; base; college; coping; day; design; drinking; early /brief intervention /therapy; experience; high risk sexual behavior; improved; indexing; insight; motivational intervention; pleasure; programs; sex; size; theories; therapy design; university student

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The expanding market for motivation-based approaches to intervention demands specific knowledge of the role of expectancies and motivations in behavior engagement and behavioral consequences. Despite concerns over bidirectional influences between heavy alcohol use and risky sexual behavior among emerging adults, little research has either specified the links between individual motivations in these two domains or examined the event-level co-occurrence of these behaviors. Based on the theory of reasoned action, the current research plan is designed to improve understanding of the associations of the motivations for alcohol use and sex. Data will consist of web-based self-reports from college freshmen collected across 14 consecutive days. Intensive daily data allows investigation of event-level associations of behaviors and their consequences, including the modeling of within-person effects (e.g., whether an individual is more likely to have sex on days he has been drinking) which will supplement existing literature which has largely relied on variable-centered, cross-sectional data. Specific aims are: (a) to identify groups of individuals with characteristic profiles of motivations for and against drinking and sexual behavior using cluster analysis; and (b) to assess daily fluctuations and co-variations in alcohol and sexual behavior consequences based on sex-related alcohol expectancies using multi-level modeling. It is important to understand both how individuals' motivations may be similar or different for drinking and sex and how thteir positive and negative conseuqences may or may not vary together within-people across days. As motivations based on positive and negative consequences of drinking and sex are better understood, it will become clearer whether these behaviors could be targeted together in motivation-based brief interventions designed to promote public health by reducing the harm associated with alcohol use (e.g., injury, alcohol poisoning) and sexual behavior (e.g., STDs, unwanted pregnancy) on college campuses.

描述（由申请人提供）：基于动机的干预方法的市场不断扩大，需要对期望和动机在行为参与和行为后果中的作用有具体的了解。尽管人们对初出期成人中大量饮酒和危险性行为之间的双向影响感到担忧，但很少有研究明确说明这两个领域中个人动机之间的联系，也很少有研究考察这些行为在事件层面的共同发生。基于理性行为理论，目前的研究计划旨在提高对饮酒动机与性行为之间关系的理解。数据将包括连续14天从大学新生中收集的基于网络的自我报告。密集的日常数据允许对行为及其后果的事件级关联进行调查，包括对个人影响的建模（例如，一个人是否更有可能在他喝酒的时候发生性行为），这将补充现有的主要依赖于以变量为中心的横向数据的文献。具体目标是：(a)利用聚类分析确定具有支持和反对饮酒和性行为动机特征概况的个人群体；(b)基于与性有关的酒精预期，使用多层次模型评估酒精和性行为后果的每日波动和共同变化。重要的是要了解个人饮酒和性行为的动机是如何相似或不同的，以及它们的积极和消极后果是如何在不同的日子里在人体内变化的。随着基于饮酒和性行为的积极和消极后果的动机得到更好的理解，这些行为是否可以在基于动机的简短干预措施中一起成为目标，旨在通过减少与大学校园内饮酒（例如伤害、酒精中毒）和性行为（例如性传播疾病、意外怀孕）相关的危害来促进公众健康，这一点将变得更加清楚。