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Format: HTML Label: Thomson Gale Manufacturer: Thomson Gale Number Of Pages: 29 Publication Date: March 01, 2006 Publisher: Thomson Gale Release Date: March 08, 2006 Studio: Thomson Gale Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: This digital document is an article from Journal of Studies on Alcohol, published by Thomson Gale on March 1, 2006. The length of the article is 8536 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. From the author: Objective: The present study examined the influences of personality dimensions (extraversion, neuroticism) on college alcohol involvement both (1) directly and (2) mediated by positive and negative alcohol expectancies across two imagined (high and low) alcohol doses. Method: Participants (N = 339; 176 women) were regularly drinking college students who completed a questionnaire battery on demographic characteristics, personality, expectancies, and alcohol use and problems. Results: Structural equation modeling analysis of low- and high-dose models revealed partial support for the Social Learning Theory conceptualization of expectancies as mediators of more distal (personality) influences. Interestingly, patterns of association differed by dose. At high-expectancy doses, positive alcohol expectancies fully mediated the extraversion-use association. At low doses, positive expectancies did not playa critical role. Two distinct pathways from neuroticism to alcohol use were observed: a direct pathway, whereby neuroticism is a protective factor for alcohol use, and an indirect pathway, through positive expectancies, whereby neuroticism is a risk factor. The protective pathway was evident regardless of expectancy doses, whereas the risk pathway was evident only at high doses. Negative expectancies partially mediated the association between neuroticism and alcohol problems at both high- and low-expectancy doses. Conclusions: These data underscore the unique role of both positive and negative expectancies in the association between personality and drinking behavior and point to the importance of considering alcohol dose when assessing expectancies. Findings suggest that it may be beliefs about the effects resulting from heavy (rather than moderate) drinking that may be the active mechanism underlying drinking behavior. Citation Details Title: High- and low-dose expectancies as mediators of personality dimensions and alcohol involvement *. Author: Jennifer P. Read Publication: Journal of Studies on Alcohol (Magazine/Journal) Date: March 1, 2006 Publisher: Thomson Gale Volume: 67 Issue: 2 Page: 204(11) Distributed by Thomson Gale 
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