Effects of induced compliance on alcohol use: Evaluation of a school-based intervention among Norwegian 8th graders
Engelsk titel: Effects of induced compliance on alcohol use: Evaluation of a school-based intervention among Norwegian 8th graders
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Författare:
Natvig, Henrik
;
Aarö, Leif Edvard
Email: henrik.natvig@psykologi.uio.no
Språk: Eng
Antal referenser: 41
Dokumenttyp:
Artikel
UI-nummer: 14091128
Sammanfattning
This study evaluated an alcohol intervention among Norwegian 8th graders. Participants competed class wise in producing the best 3-minutes alcohol prevention video aimed at convincing 7th graders not to start drinking.
Consistent with the induced compliance approach to attitude change, involvement in producing the video was expected to influence the 8th graders' own attitudes and behavior. Furthermore, the 8th graders carried out a survey of
alcohol use at their own school, and were provided feedback on the results from their own as well as from other schools. The aim was to reduce the overestimation of alcohol use common among adolescents at this age and
thereby change both social norms related to drinking alcohol and reducing drinking. Questionnaires were administered at baseline and four months later. The questionnaire included nine scales of known social psychological
alcohol use correlates which explained as much as 54.6% and 58.6% of the variance in alcohol use at T1 and T2, respectively. The intervention group (n = 586) had significantly lower increase in alcohol use compared to the
comparison group (n = 392) after controlling for covariates. A multilevel mediation analysis showed that changes in four of the covariates (Descriptive norms, AEQ-A social scale, Attitudes, and Anticipated regrets) significantly
predicted change in alcohol use at the within level and two of the covariates (Descriptive norms and Perceived behavioral control) at the between level. No significant mediation effects were, however, revealed.