AN INTERNET-BASED PERSONALIZED NORM INTERVENTION TO REDUCE RISKY BEHAVIOR

这个子项目是许多研究子项目中利用 资源由NIH/NCRR资助的中心拨款提供。子项目和 调查员(PI)可能从NIH的另一个来源获得了主要资金， 并因此可以在其他清晰的条目中表示。列出的机构是 该中心不一定是调查人员的机构。 尽管对年轻人进行了风险教育，但大学生中的随意性行为仍然非常普遍。随意性行为的学生将自己置于性传播感染、意外怀孕以及负面情绪和心理后果的风险之中。之前的证据表明，酗酒等其他危险行为的实践受到规范误解的影响，高估了同龄人对酗酒的认可程度和他们酗酒的频率。研究还发现了支持通过旨在减少标准高估的规范教育运动来减少问题饮酒的证据。最近的研究表明，学生们也高估了同龄人对勾搭的认可程度。这项纵向试点调查的主要目的是开发类似的基于规范的干预措施，以减少大学生的偶然性行为(勾搭)。这项研究的参与者将收到关于他们的同龄人认可和参与勾搭的程度的规范信息。然后，他们将参与三波数据收集，旨在纵向跟踪与勾搭相关的态度和行为变化。

This subproject is one of many research subprojects utilizing the resources provided by a Center grant funded by NIH/NCRR. The subproject and investigator (PI) may have received primary funding from another NIH source, and thus could be represented in other CRISP entries. The institution listed is for the Center, which is not necessarily the institution for the investigator. Casual sexual behavior among college students remains highly prevalent despite efforts to educate young adults about its risks. Students who practice casual sexual behavior place themselves at risk for sexually transmitted infections, unwanted pregnancy, and negative emotional and psychological consequences. Previous evidence has suggested that the practice of other risky behaviors such as heavy drinking is affected by norm misperception, the overestimation of the degree to which peers approve of heavy drinking and the frequency with which they practice it. Research has also yielded evidence supporting the reduction of problematic drinking through norm education campaigns geared to reduce norm overestimation. Recent studies indicate that students also overestimate the degree to which their peers approve of and engage in hooking up. The primary purpose of this longitudinal pilot investigation is to develop a similar norms-based intervention to reduce casual sexual behavior (hooking up) among college students. Participants in this study will receive normative information regarding the degree to which their peers approve of and engage in hooking up. They will then participate in three waves of data collection devised to track hook up-related attitudinal and behavioral changes longitudinally.