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This study examined whether students engaged in university sport have different drinking outcome expectancies and normative beliefs than students who are not engaged in university sport. A cross-sectional survey of university students in England in 2008–2009 was undertaken. A questionnaire battery, including the Drinking Expectancies Questionnaire (DEQ) and a measure of normative beliefs, was completed by 770 students from seven universities across England. Responses from 638 students who were not abstaining from alcohol were analyzed. Students engaged in university sport have significantly higher drinking expectancies of assertion compared with students not engaged in university sport. Moreover, students engaged in university sport consistently report higher personal alcohol consumption and higher perceptions of consumption in those around them than students not engaged in university sport. Both assertion and the perception that students around them drink heavily provide only a partial explanation for why students engaged in university sport drink more than those not engaged in university sport. Further research is required to identify the reasons for heavy drinking among students involved in university sport in England.
Author(s): Longstaff F, Heather N, Allsop S, Partington E, Jankowski M, Wareham H, St Clair Gibson A, Partington S
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Journal of Clinical Sport Psychology
Year: 2015
Volume: 9
Issue: 1
Pages: 59-75
Print publication date: 01/03/2015
Acceptance date: 01/01/1900
ISSN (print): 1932-9261
ISSN (electronic): 1932-927X
Publisher: Human Kinetics, Inc.
URL: https://doi.org/10.1123/jcsp.2015-0005
DOI: 10.1123/jcsp.2015-0005
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