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Interpersonal Relating, Risk-Taking Behaviour and Alcohol Use in Young Adults

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Research continues to seek to understand potential underlying mechanisms for alcohol use and problematic patterns of drinking. This chapter explores the association between interpersonal relating as measured with the Person’s Relating to Others Questionnaire Version 3 (PROQ3; Birtchnell et al., Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, 20, 36–48, 2013) and binge drinking in young adults and examines the mediating role of risk-taking behaviour as measured with the Risk-Taking Questionnaire-8 items (de Haan et al., International Journal of General Medicine, 4, 575–584, 2011). Participants (N = 2962) were drawn from the online Utrecht Student Survey (de Haan et al., International Journal of General Medicine, 5, 889–898, 2012). For men, scores on the lower close (LC), lower distant (LD), and neutral distant (ND) scales of the PROQ3 decreased, whereas scores on the upper close (UC) and upper distant (UD) scales increased the odds of binge drinking. For women ND decreased and UD increased the odds. These effects were mediated by risk-taking behaviour. Gender differences found in this study could lead towards understanding risky alcohol consumption in young adults.

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The USS was supported by a grant from Red Bull GmbH (Fuschl am See, Austria). Red Bull GmbH was not involved in the design and implementation of the study, collection, management, analysis, interpretation of the data, or the preparation of the manuscript.

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    Lydia de Haan, Hein de Haan & Cor de Jong

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  1. Institute of Psychiatry, University of Kings College London, London, United Kingdom

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  2. Department of Psychology, Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, United Kingdom

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  3. TEI of Crete, Heraklion, Greece

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de Haan, L., de Haan, H., de Jong, C. (2016). Interpersonal Relating, Risk-Taking Behaviour and Alcohol Use in Young Adults. In: Birtchnell, J., Newberry, M., Kalaitzaki, A. (eds) Relating Theory – Clinical and Forensic Applications. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-50459-3_19

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