Text Messages Conveying Parental Drinking Limits: A Potential Avenue for Preventing and Reducing Alcohol Use in College Students.

IF 2.4 3区 医学 Q2 PSYCHOLOGY Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs Pub Date : 2024-09-01 Epub Date: 2024-04-02 DOI:10.15288/jsad.23-00263
Bradley M Trager, Oliver J Hatch, Reed M Morgan, Sarah C Boyle, Frank T Materia, Joseph W LaBrie
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Objective: Although previous research has established that students who perceive that their parents have lower drinking limits on underage drinking consume less alcohol, optimal approaches for effectively communicating these limits are less understood. To address this gap in the literature, the present study examined the effects of hypothetical limit-focused text messages on estimated drinking behavior.

Method: Undergraduate college students (N = 253) completed an online survey in which they were instructed to imagine a scenario in which they were planning to go out at night to an event involving drinking. Participants were randomly assigned to a condition in which they would receive one of four hypothetical text messages from their mother and/or father containing a range of drinking limits. They were then asked to report how much alcohol they would realistically consume on this night if they were and were not obligated to check in with their parent at the end of the night.

Results: Hypothetical text messages from mothers and fathers containing lower drinking limits resulted in lower estimated alcohol consumption. A drinking limit of zero resulted in the least amount of expected alcohol consumption, but specifying 1-2 drinks as a limit might produce a similar effect if parents also required their student to check in at the end of the night.

Conclusions: Findings from this study provide initial support for future studies to investigate the effects of limit-setting text messages sent from parents on college student drinking as well as the effects of text messages sent from parents requiring that students check in.

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传达家长饮酒限制的短信:预防和减少大学生饮酒的潜在途径。
目的:尽管以往的研究已经证实,认为父母饮酒限制较低的学生饮酒量较少,但人们对有效传达这些限制的最佳方法却不甚了解。针对这一文献空白,本研究探讨了以限制为重点的假设性短信对估计饮酒行为的影响:本科大学生(人数=253)完成了一项在线调查,在调查中,他们被要求想象一个场景,即他们计划晚上出去参加一个涉及饮酒的活动。参与者被随机分配到一个条件下,即他们会收到来自母亲和/或父亲的四条假设短信中的一条,短信内容包括一系列饮酒限制。然后要求他们报告,如果他们有义务或没有义务在当晚结束时向父母报到,他们在当晚实际会喝多少酒:结果:母亲和父亲发送的假设短信中包含较低的饮酒量限制,会导致较低的估计饮酒量。饮酒量限制为零导致的预期饮酒量最少,但如果父母也要求学生在晚上结束时签到,规定饮酒量限制为 1-2 杯可能会产生类似的效果:本研究的结果为今后的研究提供了初步支持,即调查父母发送的限制饮酒短信对大学生饮酒的影响,以及父母发送的要求学生签到短信的影响。
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期刊介绍: The Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs began in 1940 as the Quarterly Journal of Studies on Alcohol. It was founded by Howard W. Haggard, M.D., director of Yale University’s Laboratory of Applied Physiology. Dr. Haggard was a physiologist studying the effects of alcohol on the body, and he started the Journal as a way to publish the increasing amount of research on alcohol use, abuse, and treatment that emerged from Yale and other institutions in the years following the repeal of Prohibition in 1933. In addition to original research, the Journal also published abstracts summarizing other published documents dealing with alcohol. At Yale, Dr. Haggard built a large team of alcohol researchers within the Laboratory of Applied Physiology—including E.M. Jellinek, who became managing editor of the Journal in 1941. In 1943, to bring together the various alcohol research projects conducted by the Laboratory, Dr. Haggard formed the Section of Studies on Alcohol, which also became home to the Journal and its editorial staff. In 1950, the Section was renamed the Center of Alcohol Studies.
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