Alcohol Drinking - Psychology
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Alcohol expectancies among high school students in Inner Mongolia, China.

29 Sep 2009 OBJECTIVE: This study examines differences in Chinese high school students' alcohol expectancies by drinking status (nondrinker, occasional drinker, regular drinker) and gender (male, female). METHOD: The authors administered the Chinese Adolescent ... Read more...

Long-term risk preference and suboptimal decision making following adolescent alcohol use.

19 Sep 2009 Individuals who abused alcohol at an early age show decision-making impairments. However, the question of whether maladaptive choice constitutes a predisposing factor to, or a consequence resulting from, alcohol exposure remains open. To examine ... Read more...

Self-report of alcohol use for pain in a multi-ethnic community sample.

30 Aug 2009 This study examined the occurrence of alcohol use to manage pain in community-dwelling adults with tooth pain, jaw joint/face pain, and arthritis. Race/ethnicity, sex, and age were examined to determine their associations with alcohol use for pain. ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Alcohol Drinking - Psychology'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Knowledge of drinking guidelines does not equal sensible drinking. 8 Oct 2009
• Alcohol expectancies among high school students in Inner Mongolia, China. 29 Sep 2009
• Long-term risk preference and suboptimal decision making following adolescent alcohol use. 19 Sep 2009
• Self-report of alcohol use for pain in a multi-ethnic community sample. 30 Aug 2009
• Analysis of item response and differential item functioning of alcohol expectancies in middle school youths. 30 Aug 2009
• [The therapeutic bar, a social space for rehabilitation] 30 Aug 2009
• Gender-specific normative perceptions of alcohol-related protective behavioral strategies. 30 Aug 2009
• Alcohol primes, expectancies, and the working self-concept. 30 Aug 2009
• Does drinking lead to sex? Daily alcohol-sex behaviors and expectancies among college students. 30 Aug 2009
• ALDH2, ADH1B and alcohol expectancies: integrating genetic and learning perspectives. 30 Aug 2009
• Drinking to cope as a statistical mediator in the relationship between suicidal ideation and alcohol outcomes among underage college drinkers. 30 Aug 2009
• Reasons for abstaining or limiting drinking: a developmental perspective. 30 Aug 2009
• [Talking about alcohol. "A guidebook to the art of communication at a spiritual level"] 30 Aug 2009
• Alcohol and high-risk behavior among young first-time offenders. 30 Aug 2009
• Sensation seeking as a predictor of treatment compliance and smoking cessation treatment outcomes in heavy social drinkers. 30 Aug 2009
• Reliability and validity of the alcohol consequences expectations scale. 30 Aug 2009
• Attitudes, norms and controls influencing lifestyle risk factor management in general practice. 24 Aug 2009
• The effect of credibility-related design cues on responses to a web-based message about the breast cancer risks from alcohol: randomized controlled trial. 23 Aug 2009
• Functional CRH variation increases stress-induced alcohol consumption in primates. 15 Aug 2009
• Prospective relations between growth in drinking and familial stressors across adolescence. 30 Jul 2009

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Technical information about 'Alcohol Drinking'

Definition: Behaviors associated with the ingesting of alcoholic beverages, including social drinking.

Descriptor UI: D000428

Alternative terms: Alcohol Drinking; Alcohol Consumption; Consumption, Alcohol; Drinking, Alcohol;

Related Mesh Headings: Alcoholism; Temperance;

Allowable Qualifiers: adverse effects; blood; cerebrospinal fluid; drug therapy; economics; epidemiology; ethnology; genetics; history; immunology; legislation & jurisprudence; metabolism; mortality; pathology; physiopathology; prevention & control; psychology; therapy; trends; urine;

Tree Number: F01.145.317.269;

History Note: 69

Technical Notes: drunkenness = ALCOHOLIC INTOXICATION but binge drinking & acute alcohol intox = ETHANOL /pois; chronic alcohol consumption = ALCOHOLISM; TEMPERANCE is available for "abstinence from alcohol" but do not confuse with alcohol withdrawal (see note under ALCOHOL WITHDRAWAL DELIRIUM & SUBSTANCE WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME)