- Title
- College students’ readiness to reduce binge drinking: criterion validity of a brief measure
- Creator
- McGee, Rob; Williams, Sheila; Kypri, Kypros
- Relation
- Drug and Alcohol Dependence Vol. 109, Issue 1-3, p. 236-238
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2009.12.009
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2015
- Description
- We assessed the criterion-related validity of a contemplation ladder used to determine college students’ readiness to reduce binge drinking. 1356 students in halls of residence in Dunedin, New Zealand completed a self-report survey including the contemplation ladder, AUDIT questionnaire, and other alcohol-related measures. Two groups of binge drinkers were identified, one reporting bingeing more than twice per week (n = 645), and one bingeing 1–2 times per week (n = 237). A third group did not report binge drinking (n = 474). A higher readiness to change binge drinking was associated with more frequent bingeing, more interpersonal and academic problems with alcohol, less frequent use of cannabis, and living in a hall with a norm of binge drinking. The contemplation ladder for alcohol was sensitive to other alcohol-related behaviours, and may be useful in surveys of drinking where a brief measure of readiness to change is needed.
- Subject
- binge drinking; contemplation ladder; college students
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1329791
- Identifier
- uon:26242
- Identifier
- ISSN:0376-8716
- Language
- eng
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