title: Measuring university students' self-efficacy to use drinking self-control strategies.
abstract: Using a Web-based, self-administered questionnaire, we assessed 498 university-student drinkers' self-efficacy to use 31 different behavioral strategies to reduce excessive drinking in each of three different locations (bar, party, own dorm/apartment). Averaging all 31 items within each drinking situation to create a single scale score revealed high internal consistency reliabilities and moderate inter-item correlations. Testing the association of self-efficacy with drinking location, sex, and frequency of recent binge drinking, we found that respondents reported higher self-efficacy to use these strategies when drinking in their own dorm/apartment than when drinking in bars and at parties; women reported higher mean self-efficacy than men; and drinkers who engaged in 3-or-more binges in the previous 2 weeks reported lower self-efficacy than those who reported either 0 or 1-or-2 binges in the same time period. This questionnaire could be used to identify self-efficacy deficits among clients with drinking problems and as an outcome measure to assess the degree to which interventions influence reported confidence to use specific drinking-reduction strategies in high-risk drinking situations.
authors: Department of Psychology, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH 43403, USA. erin.bonar@gmail.com
authors: Erin E
authors: EE
authors: Bonar
authors: Harold
authors: H
authors: Rosenberg
authors: Erica
authors: E
authors: Hoffmann
authors: Shane W
authors: SW
authors: Kraus
authors: Elizabeth
authors: E
authors: Kryszak
authors: Kathleen M
authors: KM
authors: Young
authors: Lisham
authors: L
authors: Ashrafioun
authors: Michelle
authors: M
authors: Pavlick
authors: Erin E
authors: EE
authors: Bannon
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000428:Alcohol Drinking / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000523:psychology; D000435:Alcoholic Intoxication / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007175:Impulsive Behavior; D007389:Internal-External Control; D020407:Internet; D008297:Male; D020377:Self Efficacy; D012927:Social Control, Informal; D012931:Social Environment; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014495:Universities; D055815:Young Adult