Doutoramento Lidia do Rosrio Cabral Agosto2007.pdf - Repositório ...

absence to the lessons, in 22.6% produced memory loss, 77% consumed many kinds of
beverages and more than 50% had inebriated during the academics rituals/customs.
The expectations and beliefs are increased in males in all factors, and the students
who had been inebriated in the academics rituals/customs possess higher expectations and
beliefs concerning the alcohol. Males are also who presents higher estimates of risk,
classifying of high risk 38.6 and 45.0% of the students in two phases, respectively. In the
second phase of the study, were verified an increase of high risk and a reduction of low risk.
Is on the high risk students that observes lower risk estimative and higher average values in
all the factor of the social representative scale. The positives global effects, and the easier
social interaction, the reduction of negative feelings of itself and the evaluation anxiety, the
escape from negative emotional states the sexual desinhibit, the total social representation
had constituted predictor of the risk estimate in the first moment of the study. In the second
moment of the study the sexual desinhibit is total, as well as the social representation.
On the first phase, 47,0% of the girls were classified as high consumers, in the next
phase was 44,7% for the boys. Between the risk estimate and consumption levels exists a
positive relation with an explicative value of 26.3%.
The students with high consumption are the ones shows expectations and personal
beliefs more elevated, constituting the total social representation and the sexual desinhibition
in the first phase the predictor to the consumption values. In the second phase the predictor
for the consumption values were the sexual desinhibition and the recreational justification.
Keywords: alcohol; adolescents; students; academic rituals/customs, social
representation, expectations and beliefs.
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