From Animal House to Old School: A multiple mediation analysis of the association between college drinking movie exposure and freshman drinking and its consequences

Osberg, Timothy M.; Billingsley, Katherine; Eggert, Meredith; Insana, Maribeth

doi:10.1016/j.addbeh.2012.03.030

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“…With respect to construct validity, the PIMCES was significantly associated in predicted directions with marijuana use and outcomes. Furthermore, although mostly unrelated to descriptive norms of marijuana use, the PIMCES was consistently associated with injunctive norms as predicted, consistent with previous research suggesting a stronger association between injunctive norms and these college-related substance beliefs Osberg et al, 2012). We reason that injunctive norms should be more closely aligned with internalization of college marijuana use culture as they reflect perceptions of peer approval of marijuana use rather than actual use patterns-which perceivers often misjudge.…”

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“…For example, the CLASS has been shown to mediate the effects of personality on alcohol-related outcomes , suggesting that these beliefs are proximal antecedents that may help to explain why certain traits place individuals at risk. The CLASS has also been shown to mediate the effects of exposure to pro-drinking college movies on alcohol-related outcomes, such that exposure to these movies results in higher internalization of college drinking culture, which in turn results in higher risk for alcohol use/problems (Osberg et al, 2012).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Longitudinal and experimental studies are needed to better estimate any causal effects of the PIMCES on marijuana-related consequences. For example, future studies could examine whether PIMCES scores mediate the effects of personality traits , exposure to pro-marijuana media (Osberg et al, 2012), and brief interventions.…”

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“…We conceptualized this construct as representative of the extent to which a person believes that marijuana use plays a central role in the college experience or the internalization of college marijuana use culture. Based on past research on the CLASS Osberg et al, 2010Osberg et al, , 2011Osberg et al, , 2012, we hypothesized that individuals who reported high internalization of the college marijuana use culture would report (a) a higher frequency of marijuana use, (b) greater marijuana-related consequences, (c) modestly higher descriptive norms, and (d) moderately higher injunctive norms. Similarly, we expected to find these associations at the institutional level.…”

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Perceived Importance of Marijuana to the College Experience Scale (PIMCES): Initial Development and Validation

Pearson

Kholodkov

Gray

2017

J. Stud. Alcohol Drugs

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ABSTRACT. Objective: Internalization of college substance use culture refers to the degree to which an individual perceives the use of that substance to be an integral part of the college experience. Although there is a growing literature characterizing this construct for alcohol, the present study describes the development and validation of a new measure to assess the internalization of the college marijuana use culture, the Perceived Importance of Marijuana to the College Experience Scale (PIMCES). Method: We recruited a large, diverse sample (N = 8,141) of college students from 11 participating universities. We examined the psychometric properties of the PIMCES and evaluated its concurrent validity by examining its associations with marijuana-related outcomes. Results: A single-factor, eight-item PIMCES demonstrated good model fit and high internal consistency (Cronbach's α = .89) and was correlated with marijuana user status, frequency of marijuana use, marijuana consequences, and injunctive norms. Conclusions: Overall, the PIMCES exhibits sound psychometric properties. The PIMCES can serve as a possible mediator of the effects of personality and other factors on marijuana-related outcomes and may be a promising target for marijuana interventions. (J. Stud. Alcohol Drugs, 78, 319-324, 2017)

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Perceived Importance of Marijuana to the College Experience Scale (PIMCES): Initial Development and Validation

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Kholodkov

Gray

2017

J. Stud. Alcohol Drugs

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“…In 2010, Osberg and colleagues developed and validated the College Life Alcohol Salience Scale (CLASS) to assess the internalization of college student drinking culture, or beliefs regarding the degree to which alcohol use is considered an integral part of the college experience. Since its development, the CLASS has been shown to be robustly associated with elevated levels of alcohol use and consequences among college students (Bravo et al, 2017;Osberg et al, 2010Osberg et al, , 2011Osberg et al, , 2012. Moreover, the CLASS has been shown to have stronger associations with negative alcohol-related consequences than many other established predictors of alcohol outcomes (e.g., descriptive norms, injunctive norms, alcohol expectancies; Hustad et al, 2014;Osberg and Boyer, 2016;Pearson and Hustad, 2014;Ward et al, 2015).…”

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Cross-cultural examination of college drinking culture in Spain, Argentina, and USA: Measurement invariance testing of the College Life Alcohol Salience Scale

Bravo

Pearson

Pilatti

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Drug and Alcohol Dependence

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Objective: Perceptions about what is "normal" drinking in college, measured by the College Life Alcohol Salience Scale (CLASS; 15 items), have been robustly associated with elevated levels of problematic alcohol use, yet the role of these beliefs has not been studied outside the U.S. The present work examined measurement invariance of the CLASS across sex, drinker status, and in individuals of three different countries (i.e., U.S., Argentina, and Spain).Additional goals were to evaluate differences on the CLASS (i.e., latent mean differences) as a function of sex, drinker status and country and to compare construct validity (i.e., correlations with alcohol variables) across sex and different countries. Method: A large sample of 1,841 college students enrolled in universities from U.S., Spain and Argentina completed, via an online survey, a battery of instruments that assess college alcohol beliefs, drinking motives, alcohol consumption and alcohol-related negative consequences. Results: We found that a shortened 12-item version of the CLASS to be invariant across sex and drinker status, but only metric was found across countries. As expected, men and drinkers showed significantly higher scores on the CLASS than women and non-drinkers, respectively. Bivariate correlations between CLASS scores and drinking outcomes strongly supported criterion-related validity of this measure across multiple countries and sex with differing strengths in relationships with alcohol-related constructs. Conclusions: Taken together, perceptions of the centrality of alcohol to the college experience appear to be an important target for college student alcohol interventions across various cultures and countries, especially for male college student drinkers.

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Media as a “Super Peer”: How Adolescents Interpret Media Messages Predicts Their Perception of Alcohol and Tobacco Use Norms

Elmore

Scull

Kupersmidt

2016

J Youth Adolescence

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Adolescents’ media environment offers information about who uses substances and what happens as a result—how youth interpret these messages likely determines their impact on normative beliefs about alcohol and tobacco use. The Message Interpretation Processing (MIP) theory predicts that substance use norms are influenced by cognitions associated with the interpretation of media messages. This cross-sectional study examined whether high school adolescents’ (n=817, 48% female, 64% white) media-related cognitions (i.e., similarity, realism, desirability, identification) were related to their perceptions of substance use norms. Results revealed that adolescents’ media-related cognitions explained a significant amount of variance in perceived social approval for and estimated prevalence of peer alcohol and tobacco use, above and beyond previous use and demographic covariates. Compared to prevalence norms, social approval norms were more closely related to adolescents’ media-related cognitions. Results suggest that critical thinking about media messages can inhibit normative perceptions that are likely to increase adolescents’ interest in alcohol and tobacco use.

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From Animal House to Old School: A multiple mediation analysis of the association between college drinking movie exposure and freshman drinking and its consequences

Cited by 45 publications

References 46 publications

Perceived Importance of Marijuana to the College Experience Scale (PIMCES): Initial Development and Validation

Perceived Importance of Marijuana to the College Experience Scale (PIMCES): Initial Development and Validation

Cross-cultural examination of college drinking culture in Spain, Argentina, and USA: Measurement invariance testing of the College Life Alcohol Salience Scale

Media as a “Super Peer”: How Adolescents Interpret Media Messages Predicts Their Perception of Alcohol and Tobacco Use Norms

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