Collegiates' intention and confidence to intervene into others' drinking.
OBJECTIVE
To examine variable frequencies and relationships between students' intentions and confidence with their intervention.


METHODS
Incoming freshmen (509 of 1155 students responded) completed a survey 2 months into college.


RESULTS
Most (75.2%) students intervened into others' drinking, usually as a caretaker. Students reported more intention to intervene with others with whom they had more affiliation, and confidence with less intrusive intervention. Intention to intervene (b=0.36, SE=0.10, P<0.001) and intervention confidence (b=0.27, SE=0.06, P<0.001) correlated with intervention.


CONCLUSIONS
With education to enhance their intention and confidence to intervene, first-year college students might be encouraged to intervene into others' social drinking.
Department of Public and Community Health, School of Public Health, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA. boekeloo@umd.edu
Bradley
B
Boekeloo
Melinda
M
Griffin
D000293:Adolescent; D000428:Alcohol Drinking / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000523:psychology; D017028:Caregivers / Q000523:psychology; D004645:Empathy; D005260:Female; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D033182:Intention; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male; D010379:Peer Group; D040242:Risk Reduction Behavior; D020377:Self Efficacy; D012925:Social Conformity; D012931:Social Environment; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology*; D014481:United States; D014495:Universities; D055815:Young Adult