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A Gender-Specific Personalized Normative Feedback Approach to Decreasing Alcohol Use among College Students
University of West Florida Libraries
Master of Arts (MA), University of West Florida
2007
Abstract
Feedback based on social normative information may be useful to decrease the misperceptions college students generally make about peer alcohol use. Gender-specific personalized normative feedback was used in the current study to determine if personalizing the normative feedback by gender would be more effective at decreasing the overestimations of other college students' drinking and self-reported drinking than feedback for the typical student for whom the gender is not specified. It was hypothesized that the participants who reported to drink 2-4 times a month or more and received gender-specific feedback would have larger decreases in perceptions of others' drinking and self-reported drinking than the nonspecific feedback and control groups. Analysis revealed that gender-specific feedback created a larger decrease in misperceptions than the control group but did not differ significantly from the nonspecific gender feedback group. Secondary analysis discusses the impact on the participants' stage of change in the Transtheortical Stages of Change Model over time and the positive correlations between number of drinks per episode and issues such as depression, anxiety, unplanned/unprotected sexual activity and engaging in other illegal activities. Strengths and limitations of the current research and suggestions for future harm reduction interventions are also addressed.
Details
- Title
- A Gender-Specific Personalized Normative Feedback Approach to Decreasing Alcohol Use among College Students
- Resource Type
- Thesis
- Publisher
- University of West Florida Libraries
- Format
- pdf
- Number of pages
- 101
- Copyright
- © 2023 Preya K. Ramey
- Identifiers
- 99380090719406600
- Academic Unit
- Psychology
- Language
- English
- Awarding Institution
- University of West Florida; Master of Arts (MA)
- Theses and Dissertations
- Master of Arts (MA), University of West Florida