Development of an Abbreviated Fonr of the Alcohol Expectancy Questionnaire for Adolescents

Webb, John A.; Baer, Paul E.; Caid, Charlene; McKelvey, Robert S.; Converse, Ronald E.

doi:10.1177/0272431692012004006

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“…Positive alcohol expectancies were measured using an abbreviated form of the Alcohol Expectancies Questionnaire for Adolescents (AEQ-A) [36] . This self-report questionnaire assesses positive expectancies related to alcohol consumption (social changes, cognitive improvement, sexual enhancement and relaxation) with 21 statements and a true/false answer format.…”

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Personalised Normative Feedback for Preventing Alcohol Misuse in University Students: Solomon Three-Group Randomised Controlled Trial

2012

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BackgroundYoung people tend to over-estimate peer group drinking levels. Personalised normative feedback (PNF) aims to correct this misperception by providing information about personal drinking levels and patterns compared with norms in similar aged peer groups. PNF is intended to raise motivation for behaviour change and has been highlighted for alcohol misuse prevention by the British Government Behavioural Insight Team. The objective of the trial was to assess the effectiveness of PNF with college students for the prevention of alcohol misuse.MethodologySolomon three-group randomised controlled trial. 1751 students, from 22 British Universities, allocated to a PNF group, a normal control group, or a delayed measurement control group to allow assessment of any measurement effects. PNF was provided by email. Participants completed online questionnaires at baseline, 6- and 12-months (only 12-months for the delayed measurement controls). Drinking behaviour measures were (i) alcohol disorders; (ii) frequency; (iii) typical quantity, (iv) weekly consumption; (v) alcohol-related problems; (vi) perceived drinking norms; and (vii) positive alcohol expectancies. Analyses focused on high-risk drinkers, as well as all students, because of research evidence for the prevention paradox in student drinkers.Principal FindingsFollow-up rates were low, with only 50% and 40% responding at 6- and 12-months, respectively, though comparable to similar European studies. We found no evidence for any systematic attrition bias. Overall, statistical analyses with the high risk sub-sample, and for all students, showed no significant effects of the intervention, at either time-point, in a completed case analysis and a multiple imputation analysis.ConclusionsWe found no evidence for the effectiveness of PNF for the prevention of alcohol misuse and alcohol-related problems in a UK student population.RegistrationControlled-Trials.com ISRCTN30784467

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2012

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“…This abbreviated 18-item AEQ contained three items drawn from each of the six AEQ factors. Although several short forms of the AEQ have been tailored for young adolescents (e.g., Aas, 1993;Webb, Baer, Caid, McKelvey, & Converse, 1992), the short form used with adults either includes only two of the six original AEQ factors (Rather, 1990) or is still comprised of 68 items (Goldman et al, 1997), thus limiting the utility of these versions of the AEQ for this study. Total scores on this brief assessment of positive AEs could range from 0 to 18.…”

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An examination of mood effects on positive alcohol expectancies among undergraduate drinkers

Hufford¹

2001

Cognition and Emotion

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Alcohol expectancies have been found to be related to both alcohol use and abuse. To date, very little research has examined whether state biases known to affect the recall and endorsement of other types of information can influence alcohol expectancies. Mood-congruent memory theory and coping theory are reviewed, and are found to make opposing predictions regarding the relationship between state negative and positive affect and endorsement of positive alcohol expectancies. Study 1 (n = 121 undergraduate drinkers) used a correlational approach to show that negative affect predicted increased endorsement of positive alcohol expectancies. Study 2 (n = 55 undergraduate drinkers) used an experimental approach to show that participants assigned to a negative mood induction endorsed more positive alcohol expectancies than participants assigned to a positive mood induction. Together, these findings suggest that state negative affect can produce transient changes making alcohol use appear to be an attractive coping strategy.

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“…Nevertheless, the AEQ-AB negative scale was also positively associated with the APNE positive factor. This result does not come as a surprise since the psychometric properties of the original English version of the AEQ-AB have to be considered with caution (Stein et al, 2007;Webb et al, 1992) due to the small number of items in each scale (4 and 3 respectively). We should stress that although the AEQ-AB is not designed for college students, but rather for assessing adolescents, we included this scale in our study because it was one of the few tools that was translated into Spanish and contained both positive and negative expectations.…”

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“…Alcohol Expectancy Questionnaire-Adolescent, Brief (AEQ-AB) (Webb et al, 1992). The Spanish version of this scale (Gázquez et al, 2015) reports beliefs about the positive and negative effects of alcohol consumption on the social and emotional behavior of adolescents.…”

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“…Despite the increase in alcohol consumption among college students, relatively few instruments have been developed to assess positive and negative expectations at the same time in this specific age group. Accordingly, the aims of this study are to assess (a) the psychometric properties of the APNE to be used as an screening tool among young age population-based samples; (b) the invariance of the factor structure by sex and age; (c) the convergent validity of the APNE by using as external criteria the AEQ-AB (Webb et al, 1992), the AUDIT (Saunders et al, 1993), and the Sensation Seeking Scale (Zuckerman et al, 1978); and (d) to describe the profile of expectations with regard to alcohol consumption in this period of early adulthood and its potential association with the individuals' sex and age. We included the variables gender and age in the description of the profile because published literature shows that women are more concerned about the negative consequences of alcohol intake (Rhodes & Pivik, 2011) and young people became aware of them as they mature (Steinberg, 2007).…”

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Assessing Alcohol Expectations in University Students: the APNE Scale

Gomà‐i‐Freixanet

Ferrero-Rincón

Granero

2022

Int J Ment Health Addiction

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The increasing prevalence of alcohol consumption at early ages has led to major efforts to identify alcohol drinking habits within this highly vulnerable group, and individuals with hazardous patterns of alcohol consumption. The aim of this study was to examine the psychometric properties of the Alcohol Positive and Negative Expectations Scale (APNE; a new screening tool developed to identify expectations toward alcohol), and to examine the patterns of alcohol drinking in young adults. The sample included n = 1309 participants (college students) with age range 20 to 25 years. Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) performed through Generalized Structural Equation Models (GSEM) verified the structure of the APNE, correlational models evaluated convergent-discriminant validity, and logistic regression assessed the discriminative ability to identify harmful drinking. The bifactor structure for the APNE was confirmed (positive and negative expectations toward alcohol drinking), with adequate goodness-of-fit (RMSEA = 0.052, CFI = 0.936, TLI = 0.914, and SRMR = 0.075). Multi-group modeling showed invariance by sex (p = .543) and age (p = .395) for the measurement coefficients. High correlations with external measures of alcohol use/abuse and discriminant capacity to identify harmful drinking were obtained. Compared to men, women reported higher mean scores in the negative expectations factor (p = .003). Polynomial linear trends showed that the likelihood of positive expectations toward alcohol decreased with age, while negative expectations increased. The APNE is a brief, reliable, valid, and accurate tool to assess positive and negative expectations toward alcohol consumption in college students. Tools like the APNE can support policymakers to make informed decisions about the implementation of prevention and treatment programs targeted at this segment of the population, the development of personalized alcohol programs, and the reappraisal of public campaigns.

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Development of an Abbreviated Fonr of the Alcohol Expectancy Questionnaire for Adolescents

Cited by 5 publications

References 19 publications

Personalised Normative Feedback for Preventing Alcohol Misuse in University Students: Solomon Three-Group Randomised Controlled Trial

Personalised Normative Feedback for Preventing Alcohol Misuse in University Students: Solomon Three-Group Randomised Controlled Trial

An examination of mood effects on positive alcohol expectancies among undergraduate drinkers

Assessing Alcohol Expectations in University Students: the APNE Scale

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