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Relationship between social support and alcohol use and abuse amongst college students

For the dependent variable (i.e. drinking), I will use the (24-item) version of the Young Adult Alcohol Problems Screening Test (Hurlbut & Sher, 1992). This test assesses past-year frequency of several common negative consequences of alcohol use, including drinking and driving, feeling physically sick, neglecting responsibilities, and unwanted sexual behaviors. Items will be rated on a continuous scale ranging from either 0 (never) to 9 (4 or more times) or, for consequences with lower base rates, from 0 (never) to 4 (3 or more times).
For the independent variable (i.e. social modeling), I will use the measure created by Wood et al. (2001) who adaopted it from five self-report items previously used by Jessor, Jessor, and Donovan (1981). Participants were queried about close friends attitudes about drinking and getting drunk and the average quantity per occasion consumed by close friends. Attitude items will be rated on a 5-point continuous response scale ranging from 0 (strongly disapprove) to 4 (strongly approve). Response options for typical quantity consumed ranged from 0 (close friends dont drink) to 4 (more than 6 drinks).
Cross domain models will be used to examine assocaiton between alcohol use and socaikl influence intercept and slope terms. Mediaitonal role