Picture of boy being examining by doctor at a tuberculosis sanatorium

Understanding our future through Open Access research about our past...

Strathprints makes available scholarly Open Access content by researchers in the Centre for the Social History of Health & Healthcare (CSHHH), based within the School of Humanities, and considered Scotland's leading centre for the history of health and medicine.

Research at CSHHH explores the modern world since 1800 in locations as diverse as the UK, Asia, Africa, North America, and Europe. Areas of specialism include contraception and sexuality; family health and medical services; occupational health and medicine; disability; the history of psychiatry; conflict and warfare; and, drugs, pharmaceuticals and intoxicants.

Explore the Open Access research of the Centre for the Social History of Health and Healthcare. Or explore all of Strathclyde's Open Access research...

Image: Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust. Wellcome Collection - CC-BY.

Strathprints

Predicting university undergraduates' binge-drinking behavior : a comparative test of the one- and two-component theories of planned behavior

Elliott, Mark and Ainsworth, Kirsty (2012) Predicting university undergraduates' binge-drinking behavior : a comparative test of the one- and two-component theories of planned behavior. Addictive Behaviors, 37 (1). pp. 92-101.

Full text not available in this repository. Request a copy from the Strathclyde author

Abstract

This study provides a comparative test of the one- and two-component theories of planned behavior (TPB) in the context of university undergraduates’ binge-drinking. Participants (N=120) self-completed questionnaire measures of all TPB constructs at time 1 and subsequent binge-drinking at time 2 (two-weeks later). The data were analyzed using a combination of path analyses and bootstrapping procedures. Both models accounted for a substantial proportion of the variation in behavior. However, the two-component TPB provided a significantly better fit to the data, with the total direct and indirect effects accounting for 90% of the variance. Intention was the only direct predictor of behavior. Instrumental attitude, affective attitude and self-efficacy had indirect effects. Although health interventions could usefully target these cognitive antecedents, simulation analyses, modelling the effects of cognition change on behavior, showed that only large- (0.8 SD) sized changes to affective attitude, or moderate-sized changes to all of these cognitions in combination were sufficient to reduce binge-drinking.

Item type: Article
ID code: 34015
Keywords: university students, cognition and behavior change, binge-drinking, two-component theory of planned behavior , Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Psychiatry and Mental health, Toxicology, Medicine (miscellaneous)
Subjects: Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > Psychology
Department: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (HaSS) > School of Psychological Science and Health > Psychology
Depositing user: Pure Administrator
Date deposited: 24 Oct 2011 15:22
Last modified: 29 Mar 2019 03:14
Related URLs:
URI: https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/34015
Export data:
CORE (COnnecting REpositories)