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Blackouts (periods of alcohol-induced anterograde amnesia) are common among young adults and place individuals at significant risk for alcohol-related harm; thus, researchers have advocated for increased efforts to educate young adults on blackouts.
- Mary Beth Miller, Jennifer E. Merrill, Samyukta Singh, Angelo M. DiBello, Kate B. Carey
- 2018
In pivotal research regarding blacking out, 51% of the students who had ever consumed alcohol reported blacking out at some point in their lives, and 40 % reported experiencing a blackout in the year before the survey (White et al., 2002).
In order to inform intervention efforts for individuals who have experienced alcohol-induced blackout, this study examined intentions and motivations to experience blackout among college students who had experienced alcohol-induced memory impairment in the past year.
- Mary Beth Miller, Christal N. Davis, Jennifer E. Merrill, Angelo M. DiBello, Kate B. Carey
- 2020
Alcohol-induced blackouts, or memory loss for all or portions of events that occurred during a drinking episode, are reported by approximately 50% of drinkers and are associated with a wide range of negative consequences, including injury and death.
- Reagan R. Wetherill, Kim Fromme
- 10.1111/acer.13051
- 2016
- 2016/05
Nov 15, 2011 · Of the surveyed students, 85 per cent described themselves as drinkers and 61 per cent reported having experienced a total or partial memory blackout whilst drunk. Men were more likely to have had a blackout than women (75.4 vs. 56.7 per cent).
Our findings suggest that students recognize that blacking out is an unhealthy behavior; however, because such a recognition contradicts group norms about alcohol consumption, it causes them to experience dissonance, which they manage via a variety of rationalization strategies.
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Questions focused on: (a) their subjective evaluations of blackouts and (b) factors influencing those evaluations (i.e., what determines whether a blackout is perceived as a negative/neutral/positive experience).
