College student drinking: Perception of the norm and behavioral intentions
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College student drinking: perception of the norm and behavioral intentions.
Social norm campaigns assume that college students desire to increase their drinking, and may eventually do so, to match inflated perceptions of peer drinking. We assessed 171 college students on self-reported drinking, desired drinking and perception of peer drinking at baseline, and assessed 139 of those students one month later. Participants who believed their peers drank more than they were...
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عنوان ژورنال: Addictive Behaviors
سال: 2006
ISSN: 0306-4603
DOI: 10.1016/j.addbeh.2005.05.041