title: Aggression-related alcohol expectancies and barroom aggression among construction tradespeople.
abstract: Few studies have investigated the relationship of barroom aggression with both general and barroom-specific alcohol expectancies. The present study investigated these associations in a rarely studied and high-risk population: construction tradespeople.
  
  
  
  Male construction tradespeople (n = 211) aged 18-35 years (M = 21.91, SD = 4.08 years) participated in a face-to-face questionnaire assessing general and barroom-specific alcohol expectancies and perpetration of physical and verbal barroom aggression as well as control variables, age, alcohol consumption and trait aggression.
  
  
  
  Sequential logistic regression analyses revealed that general alcohol-aggression expectancies of courage or dominance were not predictive of either verbal or physical barroom aggression after controlling for age, alcohol consumption and trait aggression. However, barroom-specific alcohol expectancies were associated with both verbal and physical barroom aggression, with positive associations found for expected hyper-emotionality and protective effects for expected cognitive impairment.
  
  
  
  In a population where rates of risky drinking and barroom aggression are high, specific expectations about the effects of drinking in bars may influence subsequent aggressive behaviour in bars. [Zinkiewicz L, Smith G, Burn M, Litherland S, Wells S, Graham K, Miller P. Aggression-related alcohol expectancies and barroom aggression among construction tradespeople. Drug Alcohol Rev 2016;35:549-556].
authors.affiliation: School of Psychology, Deakin University, Geelong, Australia. lucy.zinkiewicz@deakin.edu.
authors.forename: Lucy
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Zinkiewicz
authors.affiliation: School of Psychology, Deakin University, Geelong, Australia.
authors.forename: Georgia
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Smith
authors.affiliation: School of Psychology, Deakin University, Geelong, Australia.
authors.forename: Michele
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Burn
authors.affiliation: School of Psychology, Deakin University, Geelong, Australia.
authors.forename: Steven
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Litherland
authors.affiliation: School of Psychology, Deakin University, Geelong, Australia.|Department of Social and Epidemiological Research, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Canada.|Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.|Department of Psychology, Western University, London, Canada.|Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Western University, London, Canada.
authors.forename: Samantha
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Wells
authors.affiliation: School of Psychology, Deakin University, Geelong, Australia.|Department of Social and Epidemiological Research, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Canada.|Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.|Department of Psychology, Western University, London, Canada.|National Drug Research Institute, Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Australia.
authors.forename: Kathryn
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Graham
authors.affiliation: School of Psychology, Deakin University, Geelong, Australia.|Department of Social and Epidemiological Research, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Canada.|National Drug Research Institute, Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Australia.|National Addiction Centre, Maudsley Hospital/Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, London, UK.
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Miller
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000374:Aggression / Q000523:psychology*; D000428:Alcohol Drinking / Q000523:psychology*; D000435:Alcoholic Intoxication / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: alcohol-related aggression; alcohol-related expectancy; barroom aggression; construction trade