@article{ref1,
title="Alcohol expectancies moderate the association between school connectedness and alcohol consumption",
journal="Journal of school health",
year="2019",
author="Cummins, Kevin M. and Diep, Sherry A. and Brown, Sandra A.",
volume="ePub",
number="ePub",
pages="ePub-ePub",
abstract="BACKGROUND: In this study, we investigate the moderated association of school connectedness and alcohol expectancies with adolescent drinking. <br><br>METHODS: Two large community samples were obtained with 2 repeated attempted censuses of all students attending a large suburban school district. Participants completed a self-administered questionnaire that assessed substance use, alcohol expectancies, and school connectedness. We used logistic regression analyses on the training sample and confirmed with Bayesian test intervals with the test sample. <br><br>RESULTS: Party related alcohol expectancies and school connectedness interacted in their explanatory association with recent drinking and binging, such that school connectedness had a protective association only for youth with lower positive expectancies. These findings were the result of pre-planned exploratory analysis, which were confirmed with out-of-sample test data. <br><br>CONCLUSIONS: The potential benefits for student health behaviors resulting from improved school connectedness may be dependent on at least one dimension of alcohol expectancies, at the individual level.<br><br>© 2019, American School Health Association.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0022-4391",
doi="10.1111/josh.12829",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/josh.12829"
}