Going against the Norm: A Mixed Methods Analysis of College Students’ Arguments against the College Drinking Culture

Effectiveness of web‐based personalised feedback interventions for reducing alcohol consumption among university students: A systematic review and meta‐analysis

“…The widespread consumption of alcohol among university students has prompted decades of research in identifying key cognitive, attitudinal, environmental, social and hereditary variables underlying alcohol use [2, 7]. The robust associations between these factors and university students' drinking have also prompted the development of a wide variety of intervention strategies targeting these variables [2].…”

“…The widespread consumption of alcohol among university students has prompted decades of research in identifying key cognitive, attitudinal, environmental, social and hereditary variables underlying alcohol use [2, 7]. The robust associations between these factors and university students' drinking have also prompted the development of a wide variety of intervention strategies targeting these variables [2]. Two main interventional approaches exist: environmental (e.g., alcohol free campuses and policies, and campus‐wide social norms campaigns) and individual‐level strategies (e.g., in‐person/group brief motivational interventions, skills training and multicomponent education‐focused programs) [8].…”

“…Alcohol is one of the leading causes of death among individuals aged 15 to 24 years worldwide [1]. University students are a particularly high-risk group with high consumption levels and binge drinking rates (defined as consuming five or more beverages containing alcohol for males or four or more beverages containing alcohol for females on the same occasion [i.e., within a couple of hours] on at least 1 day in the past month); a significant public health issue today [2][3][4]. The National Survey on Drug Use and Health 2021 reported that 51.8% of American university students drank alcohol in the past month, and 28.7% engaged in risky (i.e., 'binge') drinking episodes [4].…”

Development and validation of the perceived approval of Risky Drinking Inventory in undergraduate students.

“…Research on injunctive drinking norms emerged with four items assessing perceived approval, by friends, of drinking enough to pass out, drinking every day, drinking every weekend, and driving a car after drinking (Baer, 1994). While Baer assessed these items individually, many studies have since combined these four items to create a measure of injunctive norms, typically reporting low Cronbach’s αs (e.g., parent norms α = .58, LaBrie et al, 2010; typical student norms α = .66, Neighbors et al, 2007, 2008; friend norms α = .68, Osberg et al, 2021). A low Cronbach’s α may be the result of having only a few items on a scale.…”