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Title: Awareness of, and participation with, user-created alcohol promotion, and the association with higher-risk drinking in young adults
Author(s): Critchlow, Nathan
Moodie, Crawford
Bauld, Linda
Bonner, Adrian
Hastings, Gerard
Contact Email: nathan.critchlow@stir.ac.uk
Keywords: Alcohol
Users-created promotion
Consumption
Higher-risk drinking
Young adults.
Issue Date: 2017
Date Deposited: 3-Jun-2017
Citation: Critchlow N, Moodie C, Bauld L, Bonner A & Hastings G (2017) Awareness of, and participation with, user-created alcohol promotion, and the association with higher-risk drinking in young adults. Cyberpsychology: Journal of Psychosocial Research on Cyberspace, 11 (2), Art. No.: 6429. https://doi.org/10.5817/CP2017-2-4
Abstract: User-created alcohol promotion refers to the content distributed through new media which intends to promote consumption, but independent of commercial digital marketing. This study explores exposure to such user-created alcohol promotion and the association with higher-risk drinking in a sample of young adults in the United Kingdom. An online cross-sectional survey with 18-25 year olds (n = 405) was used to measure awareness of, and participation with, 11 forms of user-created alcohol promotion. Higher-risk drinking was measured through the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test – Consumption (AUDIT-C). On average, participants were aware of 7.48 user-created alcohol promotion channels and had participated with 4.36. A hierarchical logistic regression highlighted a positive association between exposure to user-created alcohol promotion and higher-risk consumption, with participation (AOR = 1.64) having a stronger association with higher-risk consumption than awareness (AOR = 1.19). The results suggest that young adults are aware of, and participating with, a cumulative range of user-created alcohol promotion, both within and beyond social media. Further research is required to understand whether this association with higher-risk drinking is causal, the links between user-created alcohol promotion and commercial marketing, and the wider utility of user-created content to influence health behaviours in young adults.
DOI Link: 10.5817/CP2017-2-4
Rights: The articles in Cyberpsychology: Journal of Psychosocial Research on Cyberspace are open access articles licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted, non-commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the work is properly cited.
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