Abstract

Bhutan is a small landlocked country located between India and China that is largely rural and Buddhist. As the nation develops and adopts more Western practices, the nature of the relationship bet...

Highlights

  • Bhutan is a small landlocked country located between India and China that is largely rural and Buddhist

  • We investigated how problematic alcohol use related to parenting style and distress factors in a sample of predominantly tertiary students

  • This study suggests that individuals in Bhutan are susceptible to the same vulnerabilities to problematic alcohol use as people in Western countries

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Summary

Method

Participants were recruited from Paro College, a constituent college of the Royal University of Bhutan that focuses on teacher training and includes approximately 1500 male and female students who predominantly live in separate accommodation. Measures The online survey battery consisted of 85 questions including demographic items. Cronbach’s alphas for indifference, abuse, over control, and the total were good in the current sample: 0.95, 0.92, 0.75, and 0.92, respectively. At the end of the survey, participants were given two options: (1) either to enter into a draw for a chance to win a prize of AUD$100 by providing their email address; or (2) to exit the survey They were informed that it was not possible for their email addresses to be linked to their responses. Mediation and moderation analyses were performed using PROCESS v2.16 (Hayes, 2015) with 5000 bootstrap samples

Results
Harmful drinking
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