Interpersonal communication among vocational community college students about alcohol use

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Interpersonal communication among vocational community college students
about alcohol use and binge drinking
Causality, content, and conversation partner
Boers, E.H.G.
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Interpersonal communication among vocational community college
students about alcohol use and binge drinking:
Causality, Content, and Conversation partner
Elroy Boers

The research presented in this dissertation was conducted at the Amsterdam School for Communica-
tion Research (ASCoR), University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. The research was conducted in
collaboration with Trimbos Institute, Netherlands Institute for Mental Health and Addiction, Utrecht,
The Netherlands.
Interpersonal communication among vocational community college students about alcohol use and
binge drinking: Causality, content, and conversation partner
ISBN: 978-94-028-0921-3

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Interpersonal communication among vocational community
college students about alcohol use and binge drinking:
Causality, content, and conversation partner
ACADEMISCH PROEFSCHRIFT
ter verkrijging van de graad van doctor
aan de Universiteit van Amsterdam
op gezag van de Rector Magnificus
Prof. dr. ir. K. I. J. Maex
ten overstaan van een door het College voor Promoties ingestelde commissie,
in het openbaar te verdedigen in de Agnietenkapel

op woensdag 14 februari 2018, te 14:00 uur
door
Elroy Hubertus Geertruida Boers
geboren te Delft
Promotiecommissie
Promotores:
Prof. dr. S. J. H. M. van den Putte, Universiteit van Amsterdam
Prof. dr. J. W. J. Beentjes, Universiteit van Amsterdam
Dr. H. Hendriks, Universiteit van Amsterdam
Overige leden:
Prof dr. A. H. N. Cillessen, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen
Prof. dr. J. Peter, Universiteit van Amsterdam
Prof. dr. J. C. M. van Weert, Universiteit van Amsterdam
Dr. G-J. de Bruijn, Universiteit van Amsterdam
Dr. H. A. Teunissen, Universiteit Tilburg
Faculteit der Maatschappij- en Gedragswetenschappen
Table of Contents
Chapter 1 9
Introduction
Chapter 2 21
Adolescents’ interpersonal communication about alcohol use:
Exploring causality and the role of popularity of the conversation partner
Chapter 3 41
Conversational valence and peer popularity as predictors of adolescent
binge-drinking attitudes and intentions: A hierarchical-regression
model approach
Chapter 4 63
The role of antisocial and prosocial popular adolescents in interpersonal
communication about alcohol use
Chapter 5 81
Identifying popular and unpopular adolescents’ binge-drinking beliefs in
online interpersonal communication about alcohol use: A qualitative approach
Chapter 6 107
Is it feeling or thinking? The influence of affective and cognitive attitude on
adolescents’ intention to engage in binge drinking
Chapter 7 117
Summary of findings and general discussion
Author contributions 134
Curriculum vitae 135
Dutch summary (Nederlandse samenvatting) 136
Acknowledgment (Dankwoord) 144
8
CHapter 1:
Introduction
9