Following three months fieldwork in 1998, involving in-depth interviews and focus groups, a 93- item Chinese Adolescent Alcohol Expectancies Questionnaire (CAEQ) was developed. Nine hundred and three high school students in Inner Mongolia, China completed this questionnaire. The completed CAEQ identified seven distinct factors: global negative, positive social perceptions, positive physical/emotional, negative personal effects, positive social/entertaining, emotional problem/solution, and social facilitation. Multivariate Analysis of Variance (MANOVA) was used to examine the alcohol expectancy differences between student°¯ sex, grade, and drinking status (Non drinker, Occasional drinker, and Regular drinker) on the seven scales of CAEQ. Male students reported stronger expectancies of positive social perceptions than female students did. But it is reversed for the expectancies of global negative. The 11th graders and 12th graders tended to expect more negative effects of drinking than the 10th graders. While occasional drinkers and regular drinkers reported greater expectancies of positive social perceptions, positive physical/emotional, positive social/entertaining, emotional problem solution, and social facilitation. The results indicate that Chinese adolescent alcohol expectancies vary as a function of sex, grade, and drinking behavior. The implications of these findings to development of health promotion program are discussed.
Learning Objectives: At the end of the session, the participants in the session will be able to: 1) Describe Chinese adolescent alcohol expectancies questionnaire 2) Describe the differences in alcohol expectancies among Chinese adolescents of different sex, grade, and drinking types. 3) Discuss implications of these results to the planning of health education programs
Keywords: Adolescents, International, Alcohol
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