Excessive alcohol consumption among UK university students is well documented. Although alcohol use reduces over the time spent at university, drinking patterns of undergraduates have been associated with risk of alcohol dependence and abuse a decade following graduation. Consequently, UK universities should endeavour to promote responsible drinking among their drinking student population. This thesis presents four studies that aim to inform the development of feasible and effective alcohol-related interventions targeting the student population. The first two studies examined the effect of an alcohol-related outcome expectancy manipulation on alcohol-related cognitions and consumption. Study one showed that a manipulation aiming to bolster negative expectancies and contradict positive expectancies was associated with immediate reductions in mild desires for alcohol. Study two provided limited support for study one, and indicated that repeated exposure to the manipulation was not associated with significantly greater effects. Neither study showed significant reductions in alcohol consumption. Study three used a survey to examine the predictive utility of a broader range of correlates of alcohol consumption, and provided an integrative model of risky drinking behaviour. The model highlighted the importance of age when first regularly drinking, the sensation-seeking personality trait, social drinking motives, confidence in ability to drink within government guidelines, and the perceived quantity and frequency of alcohol consumed by university friends. Study four consisted of a systematic review and meta-analysis examining the effectiveness of computer-delivered interventions (CDIs) across different study design features and identified the characteristics of CDIs associated with the largest effects. CDI efficacy was greater for primary than secondary outcomes, and varied according to the control condition and outcomes used. CDIs with the largest effects utilised personalised normative feedback among US heavy/binge drinking students. The results of these studies contribute to the current intervention literature and can be used to inform intervention development in UK universities.

This dissertation is about perceptions of non-drinkers and the social experiences of university students who do not drink alcohol. Chapter One provides a comprehensive literature review. Chapter Two outlines relevant methodological issues. Chapter Three reports findings from a cross-sectional study. Alcohol prototype measures were used to compute a sociability prototype differences variable (i.e., sociability prototypes for regular drinkers minus sociability prototypes for non-drinkers), which was associated with student drinking. Chapter Four reports a moderating effect of sociability prototype differences: beliefs about high levels of peer drinking were associated with less health-adherent drinking intention among students with less favourable evaluations of non-drinkers. Quantitative findings are summarised in Chapter Five. Chapters Six and Seven present findings from an interpretative phenomenological analysis of interviews with non-drinkers. Chapter Six suggests different strategies involved in non-drinking during social occasions, while Chapter Seven describes how authenticity is involved in deciding not to drink and within conversations about non-drinking. Chapters Eight and Nine summarise qualitative study findings and outline an intervention study, respectively. Chapter Ten reports intervention study findings. Students were asked to imagine possible benefits or anticipated strategic requirements engaged in safer drinking behaviour at four week follow-up compared with students who completed a drinks diary. Chapter Eleven summarises findings, discusses applied and theoretical implications, acknowledges programme limitations and proposes research extensions.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-26T14:55:10Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Walisson Pereira Fernandes.pdf: 3336996 bytes, checksum: 5e0932a05bfd9f262378354964e1b59b (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-03-09 / Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico / Straight edge is the word used to describe persons who, in their everyday lives, are allied to the punk to not use substances considered addictive as alcohol, tobacco and psychoactive. Its beginnings derive from the late 1970s and early 1980s in the United States. However, the genealogical analysis of their practices through the centuries, going back to abstainers movements of the United States and England between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and its ballast in the formation of moral, instilling in policy that determine behavior. With the emergence of punk in the 1970s as criticism of moralism, society and the state, the straight edge emerges in this context bringing a punk hygiene and, over the years, has become more violent and reductionist, emancipating itself from protoform and pouring a new ways to build and to solidify. The straight edge approached the environmental movements, looking to list anarchist aspects in their practice, but only reiterated other political forms that are linked more to progressivism that, in fact, to anarchism. In this purpose, several straight edgers who sought anarchism as a way of life, broke with the straight edge to proceed their libertarian path, and kept at the same time, the practical abstainers without the use of the nomenclature that identified previously. In Brazil, similar to what happened in the United States and Europe, the intensification of the straight edge scene brought also the anarchist cells of eruption for the construction of a group of vegan orientation appropriating an anarchist nomenclature for its consolidation among young libertarians causing not only the bedlam among their peers, but catches of anarchism and punk / Straight edge é a palavra utilizada para descrever os sujeitos que, em suas vidas cotidianas, aliam-se ao punk de modo a não utilizarem substâncias consideradas viciantes, como álcool, tabaco e psicoativos. Seus começos derivam do final da década de 1970 e começo da década de 1980 nos Estados Unidos. No entanto, a análise genealógica de suas práticas atravessa os séculos, remontando aos movimentos abstêmios dos Estados Unidos e da Inglaterra entre os séculos XIX e XX e seu lastro na formação da moral, infundindo na elaboração de políticas que determinariam condutas. Com o surgimento do punk na década de 1970 como crítica aos moralismos, à sociedade e ao Estado, o straight edge emerge neste contexto trazendo uma higienização do punk e, com o passar dos anos, se tornou mais violento e reducionista, desvinculando-se de sua protoforma e vertendo novos meios para se construir e se solidificar. O straight edge aproximou-se dos movimentos ambientalistas, procurando elencar aspectos anarquistas em sua prática, mas reiterou apenas outras formas políticas que vinculam-se mais a progressismos que, de fato, aos anarquismos. Neste intento, vários straight edgers que procuraram os anarquismos como forma de vida, romperam com o straight edge para dar prosseguimento a sua trajetória libertária, e mantiveram, ao mesmo tempo, as práticas abstêmias sem o uso da nomenclatura que os identificava anteriormente. No Brasil, semelhantemente ao ocorrido nos Estados Unidos e na Europa, a intensificação da cena straight edge trouxe, ainda, o irrompimento de células anarquistas para a construção de um grupo de orientação vegana apropriando-se de uma nomenclatura anarquista para sua consolidação entre jovens libertários, causando não apenas a balbúrdia entre seus pares, mas capturas dos anarquismos e do punk

Thesis (Ph. D.)--State University of New York at Binghamton, Department of History, 2005. / Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2006. / Full text release at OhioLINK's ETD Center delayed at author's request

This study deals with how the subjects Gardening, Handicraft, Domestic Science and Temperance Instruction were introduced and developed in elementary school (compulsory school) in Sweden during the period 1842-1919. During this same period a capitalist mode of production replaced the feudal one with consequent changes in home life for the people. The school subjects dealt with have been selected to throw light on whether and to what extent the elementary school was used to bring about a reorganization in the lives of wage earner families.The official argument, curricula and school enquiries have been examined. Teaching content in relation to workers' family conditions has been studied in the parish of Skön in the sawmill region of northern Sweden.The main official argument was that the miserable conditions of working class life were caused just as much by ignorant housewives and drunken fathers as by low wages and poor housing. The cure was therefore seen to lie in education, and the introduction of the subjects in question can be seen in the light of this.The study shows how the state gradually took over more and more of the responsibility for child upbringing, and how the schools of the sawmill companies played a part in this process. The results, however, indicate that the actual effect of elementary school teaching on the home lives of sawmill workers was insignificant. Working class poverty was ol course caused primarily by economic and structural factors, but defining the problems in pedagogical terms meant that responsibility could be apportioned at an individual level - and thereby the bourgeoisie reaped considerable ideological profits.Key word: history of education, Swedish compulsory school, Gardening, Handicraft, Domestic Science, Temperance Instruction, working class family, sawmill region. / digitalisering@umu

In 1881, an Ontario-based group known as the Temperance Colonization Society began looking towards the Canadian West with a speculative eye. Interested in acquiring tracts of land from the Canadian Government, the Temperance Colonization Society hoped to one day establish a new colony free from the temptations of alcohol and the troubles associated with older colonies. By 1884, a settlement was established along the south shore of the South Saskatchewan River. This was the beginning of Saskatoon.<p> As Saskatoon grew from a small settlement founded on temperance ideals to a recognized municipal corporation, the meaning of the material culture associated with this transition also changed. Two archaeological sites pertaining to this transition, the Marr Residence at 326 11th Street East (FaNp-5) and the 11th Street Privy site (FaNp-31), currently comprise the only excavated privy assemblages in the city and hold rich potential for shedding light on urban consumption behaviour at the turn of the 20th century. This study will analyze the archaeological assemblages recovered from these excavations under the scope of consumer behaviour. By orienting the essence of this study towards an archaeology of consumerism, information regarding the dimensions of everyday life in the Saskatoon area at the turn of the 20th Century can be ascertained.

In 1881, an Ontario-based group known as the Temperance Colonization Society began looking towards the Canadian West with a speculative eye. Interested in acquiring tracts of land from the Canadian Government, the Temperance Colonization Society hoped to one day establish a new colony free from the temptations of alcohol and the troubles associated with older colonies. By 1884, a settlement was established along the south shore of the South Saskatchewan River. This was the beginning of Saskatoon.<p> As Saskatoon grew from a small settlement founded on temperance ideals to a recognized municipal corporation, the meaning of the material culture associated with this transition also changed. Two archaeological sites pertaining to this transition, the Marr Residence at 326 11th Street East (FaNp-5) and the 11th Street Privy site (FaNp-31), currently comprise the only excavated privy assemblages in the city and hold rich potential for shedding light on urban consumption behaviour at the turn of the 20th century. This study will analyze the archaeological assemblages recovered from these excavations under the scope of consumer behaviour. By orienting the essence of this study towards an archaeology of consumerism, information regarding the dimensions of everyday life in the Saskatoon area at the turn of the 20th Century can be ascertained.

This Master’s Thesis seeks to explain the internal conflicts faced by Guyon, the titular hero of Book II of Edmund Spenser’s Faerie Queene. Starting with Thomas Aquinas’ designations of the sensitive versus the intellectual appetite, I show that Guyon struggles to maintain the dominance of his intellectual appetite as he puts his vaunted temperance to a series of tests. The hero manages to appease his sensitive appetite through the vice of curiositas, yet the power of his sensitive appetite demands dramatic and violent acts of repression to quash it in Mammon’s Cave and in the Bower of Bliss. Guyon’s intellectual appetite to maintain temperance in Gloriana’s kingdom, aided by the guidance of the Palmer, leads Guyon to succeed in his quest yet reveals the incompatibility between temperance and the desirous and glory-seeking life of a knight errant.

The French temperance movement during the nineteenth century believed that it had discovered the source of social problems when it linked accidents, conjugal violence and crime to an increase in alcohol consumption by the working classes. In a swift attempt to curb these societal ills, the campaign led by the medical community targeted the working classes in France. This instigated the further alienation of the masses and allowed government officials to promote its own agenda of moral reform. In an effort to expose the elitist intentions of this state run temperance movement, this thesis analyzes four images from Camille Pissarro's unpublished album, Turpitudes Sociales of 1889, which represent similar imagery but with an opposite message. I will analyze these images from Pissarro's unpublished work in order to shed light on his incorporation of class relations and depiction of the bourgeoisie's negative impact on the French working classes.