| Abstract: | The relation between type or form of alcoholic beverage consumed and expectations about emotional or behavioral concomitants of drinking was investigated. One hundred and thirty-four Finnish undergraduates (45 men and 89 women) with a mean age of 20.9 years were administered a survey inquiring about the association between each of 86 feelings or actions and four categories of alcoholic beverage (beer, wine, mixed drinks, and straight drinks), assuming comparable levels of intoxication. Multiple discriminant analyses indicated that distinctive and stable expectancies were associated with beer (tension reduction), wine (social pleasure), and straight drinks (mainly negative consequences often related to heavy drinking), while expectancies for mixed drinks were shared by other beverage types. These findings replicated and extended those obtained with a U.S. sample. |
