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Alcohol Consumption, Outcome Expectancies, and Victimization Status Among Female College Students
Author(s) -
Marx Brian P.,
NICHOLSANDERSON CINDY,
MESSMANMOORE TERRI,
Miranda Robert,
Porter Chebon
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
journal of applied social psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.822
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1559-1816
pISSN - 0021-9029
DOI - 10.1111/j.1559-1816.2000.tb02510.x
Subject(s) - alcohol , sexual assault , expectancy theory , psychology , alcohol consumption , injury prevention , human factors and ergonomics , clinical psychology , suicide prevention , poison control , social psychology , medicine , environmental health , biochemistry , chemistry
The present study examined differences in the extent of alcohol consumption and endorsement of alcohol‐related outcome expectancies between victims of alcohol‐ or drug‐related sexual assault, victims of non‐alcohol‐ or non‐drug‐related sexual assault, and nonvictim controls. The alcohol consumption patterns alcohol outcome expectancies and victimization status of 176 female college students were assessed. Results indicated that relative to nonvictims and victims of non‐alcohol‐ or non‐drug‐related sexual assault, victims of alcohol‐ or drug‐related sexual assault reported more frequent and greater alcohol consumption and a greater extent of endorsement of alcohol outcome expectancies. Furthermore. extent of alcohol consumption was associated with different alcohol expectancy outcomes for each group. Implications for the prevention of sexual assault and directions for future research are discussed.