Readiness to change drinking behaviour among heavy-drinking university students in England
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Longstaff, F., Heather, N., Jankowski, M., Allsop, S., Wareham, H., Partington, S., Partington, E. and St Clair Gibson, A. 2014. Readiness to change drinking behaviour among heavy-drinking university students in England. Education and Health. 32 (2), pp. 60-65.
Type | Article |
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Title | Readiness to change drinking behaviour among heavy-drinking university students in England |
Authors | Longstaff, F., Heather, N., Jankowski, M., Allsop, S., Wareham, H., Partington, S., Partington, E. and St Clair Gibson, A. |
Abstract | There is growing literature on possible ways of reducing alcohol consumption and alcohol-related harm among university students (Larimer and Cronce, 2002; Siegers and Carey, 2010). However, interventions with this aim might be made more effective by information on students’ readiness to change their drinking behaviour (Carey et al., 2007a), where an assessment of readiness to change might influence the kind of approach that is thought most likely to be successful. For example, it has been found that readiness to change moderated the effects of a brief intervention among heavy-drinking students (either brief motivational intervention or alcohol expectancy challenge) such that high readiness to change made an expectancy challenge relatively more effective in reducing drinking (Capone and Wood, 2009). This study also reported an association between higher readiness to change and greater reductions in alcohol consumption in the overall sample, thus supporting previous findings (Fromme and Corbin, 2004; Carey et al., 2007b). |
Research Group | Sports Psychology at the London Sport Institute |
Publisher | Schools Health Education Unit |
Journal | Education and Health |
ISSN | 0265-1602 |
Publication dates | |
01 Jan 2014 | |
Publication process dates | |
Deposited | 30 Apr 2015 |
Accepted | 01 Jan 2014 |
Output status | Published |
Publisher's version | License |
Web address (URL) | https://sheu.org.uk/sheux/EH/eh322fl.pdf |
Language | English |
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