276
Views
10
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Original Articles

Development of a Measure to Assess Protective Behavioral Strategies for Pregaming among Young Adults

ORCID Icon, , , , , & show all

References

  • Ahmed, R., Hustad, J. T., LaSalle, L., & Borsari, B. (2014). Hospitalizations for students with an alcohol-related sanction: Gender and pregaming as risk factors. Journal of American College Health, 62(5), 293–300. doi:10.1080/07448481.2014.897952
  • Araas, T. E., & Adams, T. B. (2008). Protective behavioral strategies and negative alcohol-related consequences in college students. Journal of Drug Education, 38(3), 211–224. doi:10.2190/DE.38.3.b
  • Bartlett, M. S. (1950). Tests of significance in factor analysis. British Journal of Statistical Psychology, 3(2), 77–85. doi:10.1111/j.2044-8317.1950.tb00285.x
  • Benton, S. L., Schmidt, J. L., Newton, F. B., Shin, K., Benton, S. A., & Newton, D. W. (2004). College student protective strategies and drinking consequences. Journal of Studies on Alcohol, 65(1), 115–121. doi:10.15288/jsa.2004.65.115
  • Bachrach, R. L., Merrill, J. E., Bytschkow, K. M., & Read, J. P. (2012). Development and initial validation of a measure of motives for pregaming in college students. Addictive Behaviors, 37(9), 1038–1045. doi:10.1016/j.addbeh.2012.04.013
  • Borsari, B., Merrill, J. E., Yurasek, A., Miller, M. B., & Carey, K. B. (2016). Does a brief motivational intervention reduce frequency of pregaming in mandated students?. Substance Use & Misuse, 51(8), 1056–1066. doi:10.3109/10826084.2016.1152494
  • Braitman, A. L., & Henson, J. M. (2016). Personalized boosters for a computerized intervention targeting college drinking: The influence of protective behavioral strategies. Journal of American College Health, 64(7), 509–519. doi:10.1080/07448481.2016.1185725
  • Cattell, R. B. (1966). The scree test for the number of factors. Multivariate Behavioral Research, 1(2), 245–276. doi:10.1207/s15327906mbr0102_10
  • Clapp, J. D., Madden, D. R., Mooney, D. D., & Dahlquist, K. E. (2017). Examining the social ecology of a bar-crawl: An exploratory pilot study. PloS One, 12(9), e0185238. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0185238
  • Clapp, J. D., Madden, D. R., Gonzalez Villasanti, H., Giraldo, L. F., Passino, K. M., Reed, M. B., & Fernandez Puentes, I. (2018). A system dynamic model of drinking events: Multi-level ecological approach. Systems Research and Behavioral Science, 35(3), 265–281. doi:10.1002/sres.2478
  • Costello, A. B., & Osborne, J. W. (2005). Best practices in exploratory factor analysis: Four recommendations for getting the most from your analysis. Practical Assessment, Research and Evaluation, 10(7), 1–9.
  • DeJong, W., DeRicco, B., & Schneider, S. K. (2010). Pregaming: An exploratory study of strategic drinking by college students in Pennsylvania. Journal of American College Health, 58(4), 307–316. doi:10.1080/07448480903380300
  • Del Boca, F. K., Darkes, J., Greenbaum, P. E., & Goldman, M. S. (2004). Up close and personal: Temporal variability in the drinking of individual college students during their first year. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 72(2), 155–164. doi:10.1037/0022-006X.72.2.155
  • Fairlie, A. M., Maggs, J. L., & Lanza, S. T. (2015). Prepartying, drinking games, and extreme drinking among college students: A daily-level investigation. Addictive Behaviors, 42, 91–95. doi:10.1016/j.addbeh.2014.11.001
  • Foster, J. H., & Ferguson, C. J. (2014). Alcohol ‘pre-loading’: A review of the literature. Alcohol and Alcoholism, 49(2), 213–226. doi:10.1093/alcalc/agt135
  • Giraldo, L. F., Passino, K. M., & Clapp, J. D. (2017). Modeling and analysis of group dynamics in alcohol-consumption environments. IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, 47(1), 165–176.
  • Gorsuch, R. L. (1983). Factor analysis (2nd ed.). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
  • Hummer, J. F., Napper, L. E., Ehret, P. E., & LaBrie, J. W. (2013). Event-specific risk and ecological factors associated with prepartying among heavier drinking college students. Addictive Behaviors, 38(3), 1620–1628. doi:10.1016/j.addbeh.2012.09.014
  • Hurley, A. E., Scandura, T. A., Schriesheim, C. A., Brannick, M. T., Seers, A., Vandenberg, R. J., & Williams, L. J. (1997). Exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis: Guidelines, issues, and alternatives. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 18(6), 667–683. doi:10.1002/(SICI)1099-1379(199711)18:6<667::AID-JOB874>3.0.CO;2-T
  • Kahler, C. W., Hustad, J., Barnett, N. P., Strong, D. R., & Borsari, B. (2008). Validation of the 30-day version of the Brief Young Adult Alcohol Consequences Questionnaire for use in longitudinal studies. Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, 69(4), 611–615. doi:10.15288/jsad.2008.69.611
  • Kahler, C. W., Strong, D. R., & Read, J. P. (2005). Toward efficient and comprehensive measurement of the alcohol problems continuum in college students: The Brief Young Adult Alcohol Consequences Questionnaire. Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research, 29(7), 1180–1189. doi:10.1097/01.ALC.0000171940.95813.A5
  • Kaiser, H. F. (1960). The application of electronic computers to factor analysis. Educational and Psychological Measurement, 20(1), 141–151. doi:10.1177/001316446002000116
  • Kaiser, H. F. (1974). An index of factorial simplicity. Psychometrika, 39(1), 31–36. doi:10.1007/BF02291575
  • Kenney, S. R., Napper, L. E., LaBrie, J. W., & Martens, M. P. (2014). Examining the efficacy of a brief group protective behavioral strategies skills training alcohol intervention with college women. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 28(4), 1041–1051. doi:10.1037/a0038173
  • Labhart, F., Graham, K., Wells, S., & Kuntsche, E. (2013). Drinking before going to licensed premises: An event-level analysis of predrinking, alcohol consumption, and adverse outcomes. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 37(2), 284–291. doi:10.1111/j.1530-0277.2012.01872.x
  • LaBrie, J. W., Earle, A. M., Hummer, J. F., & Boyle, S. C. (2016). Is Prepartying a cause of heavy drinking and consequences rather than just a correlate? A longitudinal look at the relationship between prepartying, alcohol approval, and subsequent drinking and consequences. Substance Use & Misuse, 51(8), 1013–1023. doi:10.3109/10826084.2016.1152493
  • LaBrie, J. W., Napper, L. E., Grimaldi, E. M., Kenney, S. R., & Lac, A. (2015). The efficacy of a standalone protective behavioral strategies intervention for students accessing mental health services. Prevention Science, 16(5), 663–673. doi:10.1007/s11121-015-0549-8
  • LaBrie, J. W., & Pedersen, E. R. (2008). Prepartying promotes heightened risk in the college environment: An event-level report. Addictive Behaviors, 33(7), 955–959. doi:10.1016/j.addbeh.2008.02.011
  • Leeman, R. F., DeMartini, K. S., Gueorguieva, R., Nogueira, C., Corbin, W. R., Neighbors, C., & O'Malley, S. S. (2016). Randomized controlled trial of a very brief, multicomponent web-based alcohol intervention for undergraduates with a focus on protective behavioral strategies. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 84(11), 1008–1015. doi:10.1037/ccp0000132
  • Logan, D. E., & Marlatt, G. A. (2010). Harm reduction therapy: A practice-friendly review of research. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 66(2), 201–214. doi:10.1002/jclp.20669
  • Madden, D. R., & Clapp, J. D. (2019). The event-level impact of one’s typical alcohol expectancies, drinking motivations, and use of protective behavioral strategies. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 194, 112–120. doi:10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2018.08.032
  • Magill, M., Colby, S. M., Orchowski, L., Murphy, J. G., Hoadley, A., Brazil, L. A., & Barnett, N. P. (2017). How does brief motivational intervention change heavy drinking and harm among underage young adult drinkers?. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 85(5), 447–458. doi:10.1037/ccp0000200
  • Marlatt, G. A., Larimer, M. E., & Witkiewitz, K. (2011). Harm reduction: Pragmatic strategies for managing high-risk behaviors (2nd ed.). New York, NY: Guilford Press.
  • Martens, M. P., Ferrier, A. G., Sheehy, M. J., Corbett, K., Anderson, D. A., & Simmons, A. (2005). Development of the protective behavioral strategies survey. Journal of Studies on Alcohol, 66(5), 698–705. doi:10.15288/jsa.2005.66.698
  • Martens, M. P., Pederson, E. R., LaBrie, J. W., Ferrier, A. G., & Cimini, M. D. (2007). Measuring alcohol-related protective behavioral strategies among college students: Further examination of the Protective Behavioral Strategies Scale. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 21(3), 307–315. doi:10.1037/0893-164X.21.3.307
  • Martens, M. P., Smith, A. E., & Murphy, J. G. (2013). The efficacy of single-component brief motivational interventions among at-risk college drinkers. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 81(4), 691–701. doi:10.1037/a0032235
  • Merrill, J. E., Vermont, L. N., Bachrach, R. L., & Read, J. P. (2013). Is the pregame to blame? Event-level associations between pregaming and alcohol-related consequences. Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, 74(5), 757–764. doi:10.15288/jsad.2013.74.757
  • Mumenthaler, M. S., Taylor, J. L., O'Hara, R., & Yesavage, J. A. (1999). Gender differences in moderate drinking effects. Alcohol Research and Health, 23(1), 55–64.
  • Neighbors, C., Atkins, D. C., Lewis, M. A., Lee, C. M., Kaysen, D., Mittmann, A., … Rodriguez, L. M. (2011). Event specific drinking among college students. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 25(4), 702–707. doi:10.1037/a0024051
  • Neighbors, C., Larimer, M. E., Lostutter, T. W., & Woods, B. A. (2006). Harm reduction and individually focused alcohol prevention. International Journal of Drug Policy, 17(4), 304–309. doi:10.1016/j.drugpo.2006.05.004
  • Neighbors, C., Lee, C. M., Atkins, D. C., Lewis, M. A., Kaysen, D., Mittmann, A., … Larimer, M. E. (2012). A randomized controlled trial of event-specific prevention strategies for reducing problematic drinking associated with 21st birthday celebrations. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 80(5), 850–862. doi:10.1037/a0029480
  • Neighbors, C., Lee, C. M., Lewis, M. A., Fossos, N., & Walter, T. (2009). Internet-based personalized feedback to reduce 21st-birthday drinking: A randomized controlled trial of an event-specific prevention intervention. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 77(1), 51–63. doi:10.1037/a0014386
  • Neighbors, C., Walters, S. T., Lee, C. M., Vader, A. M., Vehige, T., Szigethy, T., & DeJong, W. (2007). Event-specific prevention: Addressing college student drinking during known windows of risk. Addictive Behaviors, 32(11), 2667–2680. doi:10.1016/j.addbeh.2007.05.010
  • Palmer, R. S., Corbin, W. R., & Cronce, J. M. (2010). Protective strategies: A mediator of risk associated with age of drinking onset. Addictive Behaviors, 35(5), 486–491. doi:10.1016/j.addbeh.2009.12.028
  • Pearson, M. R. (2013). Use of alcohol protective behavioral strategies among college students: A critical review. Clinical Psychology Review, 33(8), 1025–1040. doi:10.1016/j.cpr.2013.08.006
  • Pearson, M. R., Kite, B. A., & Henson, J. M. (2012). The assessment of protective behavioral strategies: Comparing prediction and factor structures across measures. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 26(3), 573–584. doi:10.1037/a0028187
  • Pedersen, E. R. (2016). Using the solid research base on pregaming to begin intervention development: An epilogue to the special issue on pregaming. Substance Use & Misuse, 51(8), 1067–1073. doi:10.1080/10826084.2016.1187533
  • Pedersen, E. R., Grow, J., Duncan, S., Neighbors, C., & Larimer, M. E. (2012). Concurrent validity of an online version of the Timeline Followback assessment. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 26(3), 672–677. doi:10.1037/a0027945
  • Pedersen, E. R., & LaBrie, J. (2007). Partying before the party: Examining prepartying behavior among college students. Journal of American College Health, 56(3), 237–245. doi:10.3200/JACH.56.3.237-246
  • Pedersen, E. R., LaBrie, J. W., & Kilmer, J. R. (2009). Before you slip into the night, you'll want something to drink: Exploring the reasons for prepartying behavior among college student drinkers. Issues in Mental Health Nursing, 30(6), 354–363. doi:10.1080/01612840802422623
  • Prince, M. A., Carey, K. B., & Maisto, S. A. (2013). Protective behavioral strategies for reducing alcohol involvement: A review of the methodological issues. Addictive Behaviors, 38(7), 2343–2351. doi:10.1016/j.addbeh.2013.03.010
  • Radomski, S., Blayney, J. A., Prince, M. A., & Read, J. P. (2016). PTSD and pregaming in college students: A risky practice for an at-risk group. Substance Use & Misuse, 51(8), 1034–1046. doi:10.3109/10826084.2016.1152497
  • Read, J. P., Merrill, J. E., & Bytschkow, K. (2010). Before the party starts: Risk factors and reasons for “pregaming” in college students. Journal of American College Health, 58(5), 461–472. doi:10.1080/07448480903540523
  • Reid, A. E., & Carey, K. B. (2015). Interventions to reduce college student drinking: State of the evidence for mechanisms of behavior change. Clinical Psychology Review, 40, 213–224. doi:10.1016/j.cpr.2015.06.006
  • Rueger, S. Y., Trela, C. J., Palmeri, M., & King, A. C. (2012). Self-administered web-based timeline followback procedure for drinking and smoking behaviors in young adults. Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, 73(5), 829–833. doi:10.15288/jsad.2012.73.829
  • Sugarman, D. E., & Carey, K. B. (2007). The relationship between drinking control strategies and college student alcohol use. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 21(3), 338–345. doi:10.1037/0893-164X.21.3.338
  • Treloar, H., Martens, M. P., & McCarthy, D. M. (2015). The Protective Behavioral Strategies Scale-20: Improved content validity of the Serious Harm Reduction subscale. Psychological Assessment, 27(1), 340–346. doi:10.1037/pas0000071
  • Velicer, W. F., Eaton, C. A., & Fava, J. L. (2000). Construct explication through factor or component analysis: A review and evaluation of alternative procedures for determining the number of factors or components. In Problems and solutions in human assessment: Honoring Douglas N. Jackson at seventy (pp. 41–71). New York, NY: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers.
  • Watson, P. E., Watson, I. D., & Batt, R. D. (1981). Prediction of blood alcohol concentrations in human subjects. Updating the Widmark Equation. Journal of Studies on Alcohol, 42(7), 547–556. doi:10.15288/jsa.1981.42.547
  • Zamboanga, B. L., Casner, H. G., Olthuis, J. V., Borsari, B., Ham, L. S., Schwartz, S. J., … Pedersen, E. R. (2013). Knowing where they're going: Destination-specific pregaming behaviors in a multiethnic sample of college students. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 69(4), 383–396. doi:10.1002/jclp.21928
  • Zamboanga, B. L., Merrill, J. E., Olthuis, J. V., Milroy, J. J., Sokolovsky, A. W., & Wyrick, D. L. (2019). Secondary effects of myPlaybook on college athletes’ avoidance of drinking games or pregaming as a protective behavior strategy: A multisite randomized controlled study. Social Science & Medicine, 228, 135–141. doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2019.02.016
  • Zamboanga, B. L., & Olthuis, J. V. (2016). What is pregaming and how prevalent is it among U.S. college students? An introduction to the special issue on pregaming. Substance Use and Misuse, 51(8), 953–960. doi:10.1080/10826084.2016.1187524

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.