Les recherches ont fait état de caractéristiques de personnalité et de fonctionnement cognitif comme facteurs de vulnérabilité au binge drinking (BD) chez les jeunes. Cette relation peut être médiée par des motivations et attentes à consommer de l’alcool. De même que cette relation peut différer en fonction du genre. Cette thèse avait donc pour objectif de clarifier les liens entre ces caractéristiques de personnalité, le fonctionnement cognitif et la consommation d’alcool de type BD chez des étudiants.Pour la première partie de l’étude, 424 participants ont effectué des questionnaires portant sur la personnalité, l’état émotionnel et la consommation d’alcool. Sur les 424 participants, 120 ont effectué la seconde partie portant sur le fonctionnement cognitif. Les analyses de régressions hiérarchiques ont montré que différentes facettes de l’impulsivité (la désinhibition du questionnaire de Zuckerman, l’impulsivité motrice de la BIS-11, le manque de préméditation et la recherche de sensation de l’UPPS-P et la sensibilité à la récompense du questionnaire SPSRQ) seraient associées au BD. Le genre modérait la relation entre l’impulsivité motrice, la désinhibition et le BD. Les motivations et attentes à consommer médiraient également cette relation.Ces résultats suggèrent que pour mieux comprendre la relation entre le BD et les caractéristiques de personnalité, il est important de considérer l’ensemble des facettes de l’impulsivité mais également les facteurs les plus distaux tels que les motivations et attentes à consommer. Les interventions de prévention doivent donc se construire en considérant l’ensemble de ces aspects. / Research has identified personality characteristics and cognitive functioning as determinant factors of vulnerability to binge drinking (BD) among students. This relation may be mediated by alcohol expectancies and drinking motives. Also gender can moderate the relation between this characteristics and BD. The aim of this dissertation was to clarify the relations between personality characteristics, cognitive functioning and the BD in students. In the first part of the study, 424 participants completed personality, emotional states and the alcohol consumption questionnaires. From the 424 participants, a subsample of 120 participants completed the second part with an assessment of cognitive functioning. Hierarchical regression analyzes showed that different facets of impulsivity (Zuckerman's disinhibition, motor impulsivity of BIS-11, the lack of premeditation and sensation seeking measured by UPPS-P and reward sensitivity measured by the SPSRQ) are associated with BD. Gender moderated the relation between motor impulsivity, disinhibition and the BD. Alcohol expectancies and drinking motives mediates this relation.These results suggest that to better understand the relation between BD and personality characteristics, it is important to consider all facets of impulsivity along with more distal factors such as alcohol expectancies and drinking motives. Prevention interventions must consider all these aspects.

Thesis (M.A.)--Kent State University, 2009. / Title from PDF t.p. (viewed Jan 22, 2010). Advisor: Dan Neal. Keywords: Drinking Motives; Affect; Electronic Diary. Includes bibliographical references (p. 53-60).

Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) / The development of alcohol use disorder (AUD) is believed to involve functional adaptations in corticostriatal projections which regulate the reinforcing properties of ethanol (EtOH). To further our understanding of how repeated EtOH consumption impacts the corticostriatal circuit, extracellular electrophysiological recordings (local field potentials; LFPs) were gathered from the nucleus accumbens and prefrontal cortex of female and male C57BL/6J mice voluntarily consuming EtOH or water using ‘drinking-in-the-dark’ (DID) procedures. Mice were given 15 consecutive days of two-hours of access to EtOH (20% v/v), three hours into the dark cycle while LFPs were recorded. To determine the impact of repeated EtOH consumption on neural activity between these brain regions, theta phase-locking value (PLV, a measure of synchrony) was calculated. Specifically, theta PLV was calculated during active drinking periods (bouts) and average PLV during the first bout was compared to the last bout to determine within session changes in synchrony. Results indicated significantly lower PLV during the last bout than the first bout. Additionally, longer bouts predicted lower PLV during the last bout, but not the first bout when mice were consuming EtOH. These results may suggest that alcohol intoxication decreases corticostriatal synchrony over a drinking period. Results considering changes in theta power spectral density (PSD) indicated an increase in PSD when mice were given access to water during the typical EtOH access time following the 15-day EtOH drinking history. This effect was not seen when mice were drinking water prior to EtOH access and may be indicative of a successive negative contrast effect. This work identifies unique functional characteristics of corticostriatal communication associated with binge-like EtOH intake and sets the stage for identifying the biological mechanisms subserving them.

Thesis (D.Ed.)--Pennsylvania State University, 2003. / Vita. Includes bibliographic references (leaves 115-129). The full text of the dissertation is available as an Adobe Acrobat .pdf file (157 p.) ; Adobe Acrobat Reader required to view the file. http://etda.libraries.psu.edu/theses/approved/WorldWideFiles/ETD-304/THESISFINALAPRIL2003.pdf.

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Thesis (Ed.D.)--University of Delaware, 2007. / Principal faculty advisor: Frank B. Murray, School of Education. Includes bibliographical references.

<p>The overarching goal of this study is to enhance the current understanding of how college students with disordered eating experience alcohol. The study focuses on negative consequences, drinking behaviors, alcohol expectancies, and outcomes to a high-risk drinking prevention program. Taking a novel perspective to examine these problem behaviors, the current study uses a national sample of college students (N=8,095) who participated in an internet-based alcohol prevention program (AlcoholEdu for College, www.outsidetheclassoom.com). Multiple multivariate analyses were conducted. The results found that male and female college students with disordered eating are a high-risk drinking population. They reported higher rates of binge drinking, experienced more negative alcohol consequences, and engaged in more risky drinking behaviors and less protective drinking behaviors than college students without disordered eating. Additionally, most but not all, college students with disordered eating endorsed higher alcohol expectancies. College students with mild disordered eating also reported slightly worse outcomes to the program than students without disordered eating. The results suggest that college students with disordered eating should be targeted as a high-risk drinking population.</p> / Dissertation

Counter binge drinking advertisements most commonly feature fear appeals, but this research moves away from this tradition and investigates the potential use of key relationships and binge drinking contexts in young university students’ lives in counter binge drinking advertisements. This involved creating advertisements featuring one of three key relationships (either a best friend, mother or bartender) and one of two drinking contexts (either a 21st birthday or a Friday night out) and examining how these advertisements affected young university students’ likelihood to binge drink, attitude towards the act of binge drinking, and attitude towards alcoholic products. A between subject factorial design was implemented, and data was collected through the distribution of a survey to 301 participants. Statistical analysis of the data showed that the context shown significantly influences young university students’ likelihood of binge drinking and their attitude towards the act of binge drinking, while the relationship shown had a significant effect on their emotional and rational attitudes towards the advertisement. The type of relationship a young university student has with their best friend and mother also affected many of the results, while the gender of the spokesperson caused female university students to develop more negative attitudes towards the act of binge drinking than their male counterparts. Conclusions are drawn based on these results, and the implications for social marketers and the development of counter binge drinking advertisements is finally discussed.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--West Virginia University, 2007. / Title from document title page. Document formatted into pages; contains xi, 252 p. Vita. Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (p. 158-194).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2004. / Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 162-168). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.