NIH R01 · 2024
Characteristics and Contexts of Bystander Helping for Alcohol-Related Risk among Emerging Adults
ABSTRACT Alcohol-related risks are highest in young adulthood and this age group is most likely to be exposed to the alcohol use of their peers. Young adults are also highly influenced by their peers, both for high-risk behaviors and for prosocial actions. Bystander helping is one way that peer influence in potentially dangerous alcohol consumption circumstances can reduce harm to those at risk. Bystander helping is the phenomenon when witnesses to a problematic event step in to intervene in some way, but bystander helping has been under- investigated when hazardous alcohol use is the target behavior. In order to develop interventions that effectively leverage peer influence for harm…
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