Open AccessA road paved with safe intentions: Increasing intentions to use alcohol protective behavioral strategies via Deviance Regulation Theory.
Author(s) -
Robert D. Dvorak,
Matthew R. Pearson,
Clayton Neighbors,
Matthew P. Martens,
Brittany L. Stevenson,
Nicholas J. Kuvaas
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
health psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.548
H-Index - 164
eISSN - 1930-7810
pISSN - 0278-6133
DOI - 10.1037/hea0000327
Subject(s) - psycinfo , psychological intervention , normative , deviance (statistics) , positive deviance , psychology , harm reduction , poison control , harm , social psychology , social norms approach , limiting , injury prevention , human factors and ergonomics , intervention (counseling) , perception , clinical psychology , medicine , environmental health , public health , medline , psychiatry , philosophy , mathematics , law , engineering , epistemology , political science , mechanical engineering , statistics , nursing , neuroscience
Drinking remains a problem across college campuses. Changing this behavior requires interventions that can be easily and widely dispersed. Several theories place intentions as a proximal predictor of behavior change. The current study examines the effects of a Web-based Deviance Regulation Theory (DRT) intervention on (1) intentions to use alcohol protective behavior strategies (PBS) and (2) associations between these intentions and actual behavior.