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The words young adults use to describe how they feel when they have been drinking alcohol are a key to understanding whether they will engage in risky behaviors such as driving under the influence. A new scale for researchers developed at Penn State has been shown to be effective in gauging how young adults feel when they have been drinking and predicting the associated
The words young adults use to describe how they feel when they have been drinking alcohol are a key to understanding whether they will engage in risky
A new scale can effectively gauge how young adults feel when they have been drinking and predict the associated negative consequences, research finds. The words young adults use to describe how they feel when they’ve been drinking are a key to researchers understanding whether they will engage in risky behaviors such as driving under the influence. “We wanted to understand which words young adults are using because they are at the highest risk for substance misuse,” says Ashley Linden-Carmichael, assistant research professor of health and human development in the Edna Bennett Pierce Pre...