TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1998//
TI  - The differential role of alcohol expectancies and drinking refusal self-efficacy in problem and nonproblem drinkers
JO  - Journal of studies on alcohol
A1  - Oei, Tian Po S.
A1  - Fergusson, S.
A1  - Lee, N. K.
SP  - 704
EP  - 711
VL  - 59
IS  - 6
N2  - OBJECTIVE: The present study aimed to examine the discriminatory ability of alcohol expectancies and drinking refusal self-efficacy and to identify the differential role of these constructs in social and problem drinkers. METHOD: Drinkers (N = 276) were self-selected from general (n = 185) and clinical (n = 91) populations to complete a 40-minute questionnaire that asked about alcohol expectancies, drinking refusal self-efficacy, consumption, degree of dependence and demographics. RESULTS: The results showed that in social drinkers both the expectancy and self-efficacy constructs were reliably able to discriminate between types of drinker. Expectancy was related to consumption in social drinkers, but did not appear to account for a significant proportion of the variance in problem drinkers. CONCLUSIONS: The findings are discussed in terms of a two-process model of drinking behavior that suggests that expectancies operate differently in social and problem drinkers.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0096-882X
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -