Abstract
A newly-developed measure of the expected effects of alcohol in provoking situations was examined in terms of its factor structure, differences by situation, and associations with barroom aggression in a sample of male postsecondary students. Participants rated the extent that 49 effects of alcohol would affect their reaction to one of three randomly assigned provoking situations (i.e., guy “hits on” your girlfriend, guy punches your friend, or guy shoves you over spilled drink). Principal component analysis identified three dimensions: Cognitive Impairment, Power/Aggression, and Hyper-Emotional effects. One-way analysis of variance revealed significantly lower means on each of the three scales for the “spilled drink” situation than for the other two situations. All three scales were associated with barroom aggression in multivariate logistic regression models. This new measure provides an important tool for understanding how people perceive the effects of alcohol on their own aggression and the extent that these effects differ by situation.
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