Clustering of drinker prototype characteristics: What characterizes the typical drinker?
Prototypes (social images) have been shown to influence behaviour, which is likely to depend on the type of image. Prototype evaluation is based on (un)desirable characteristics related to that image. By an elicitation procedure we examined which adjectives are attributed to specific drinker prototy...
| Publicado en: | British Journal of Psychology Vol. 104; no. 3; pp. 382 - 400 |
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ssf&AN=89024141&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ssf uiTerm: 89024141 longDbName: Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson) uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 00071269 BJP jtl: British Journal of Psychology issn: 00071269 maglogo: Y pubinfo: dt: Aug2013 vid: 104 iid: 3 pid: 480 pub: Wiley-Blackwell artinfo: ui: 89024141 10.1111/bjop.12000 ppf: 382 ppct: 18 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P size: 219KB tig: atl: Clustering of drinker prototype characteristics: What characterizes the typical drinker? aug: au: Lettow, Britt Vermunt, Jeroen K. Vries, Hein Burdorf, Alex Empelen, Pepijn affil: Department of Public Health, Erasmus MC, University Medical Centre Rotterdam, The Netherlands Department of Methodology and Statistics, Tilburg University, The Netherlands Department of Health Promotion, Maastricht University, The Netherlands Research Group Life Style, TNO, Leiden The Netherlands su: Netherlands Alcohol drinking Personality Risk-taking behavior Cluster analysis (Statistics) Questionnaires Research funding Multiple regression analysis Descriptive statistics sug: subj: Alcohol drinking Personality Risk-taking behavior Netherlands Drinking Places (Alcoholic Beverages) Cluster analysis (Statistics) Questionnaires Research funding Multiple regression analysis Descriptive statistics ab: Prototypes (social images) have been shown to influence behaviour, which is likely to depend on the type of image. Prototype evaluation is based on (un)desirable characteristics related to that image. By an elicitation procedure we examined which adjectives are attributed to specific drinker prototypes. In total 149 young Dutch adults (18-25 years of age) provided adjectives for five drinker prototypes: abstainer, moderate drinker, heavy drinker, tipsy, and drunk person. Twenty-three unique adjectives were found. Multilevel latent class cluster analysis revealed six adjective clusters, each with unique and minor overlapping adjectives: 'negative, excessive drinker,' 'moderate, responsible drinker,' 'funny tipsy drinker,' 'determined abstainer cluster,' 'uncontrolled excessive drinker,' and 'elated tipsy cluster.' In addition, four respondent classes were identified. Respondent classes showed differences in their focus on specific adjective clusters. Classes could be labelled 'focus-on-control class,' 'focus-on-hedonism class,' 'contrasting-extremes-prototypes class,' and 'focus-on-elation class.' Respondent classes differed in gender, educational level and drinking behaviour. The results underscore the importance to differentiate between various prototypes and in prototype adjectives among young adults: subgroup differences in prototype salience and relevance are possibly due to differences in adjective labelling. The results provide insights into explaining differences in drinking behaviour and could potentially be used to target and tailor interventions aimed at lowering alcohol consumption among young adults via prototype alteration. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: N holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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