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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Jan 31.
Published in final edited form as: Res Nurs Health. 2014 Dec 24;38(1):71–81. doi: 10.1002/nur.21641

Table 1.

Description of Alcohol Consumption and Properties of Possible Selves (N = 137)

Mean (SD) Minimum-Maximum
Level of alcohol consumption
  8th grade drinks/weeka 1.31 (4.1) 0.03–25.56
  9th grade drinks/weeka 3.78 (10.0) 0.03–80.63
Properties of total array of possible selves
  Number of hoped-for possible selves 3.32 (0.9) 1–7
  Number of feared possible selves 3.36 (1.0) 0–7
  Number of expected possible selves 3.47 (1.1) 0–10
  Number of balanced pairs of possible selves 1.01 (0.8) 0–3
Possible-self properties related to specific content domains n %
  Feared drinker possible self 8 5.8
  Most important hoped-for possible self related to academics 44 32.1
  Most important feared possible self related to academics 35 25.5
  Most important expected possible self related to academics 60 44.1

Note. SD= standard deviation

a

Only for those adolescents who reported drinking (n=78 in 8th grade and n=91 in 9th grade).