Journal article
Men's experiences of a personalised, appearance-based, facial-morphing, safer drinking intervention
Journal of Health Psychology, Vol.30(2), pp.156-170
2025
PMID: 38532273
Abstract
Risky alcohol consumption behaviours remain commonplace, representing a major threat to health and safety, and are especially evidenced by young university students. Consequently, new interventions targeting this high-risk group are required. The current study investigated young male university students' experiences of a personalised, appearance-based, facial morphing, safer drinking intervention. Twenty-five male student participants were recruited, aged 18-34 years. Inductive thematic analysis of data gathered whilst participants were immersed in the intervention, and thereby exposed to alcohol-aged images of their own faces, produced four primary themes: alcohol as a threat to appearance and health, motivations to protect appearance, motivational aspects of the intervention, and proposed improvements and applications. The results of the current study suggested that participants expressed intentions towards healthier consumption/maintenance of already non-risky intake, supporting the potential of the facial-morphing appearance-based approach to address risky alcohol consumption, even in high-risk groups.
Details
- Title
- Men's experiences of a personalised, appearance-based, facial-morphing, safer drinking intervention
- Authors
- Ian R. Burgess - University of StaffordshireAlison Owen (Corresponding Author) - University of StaffordshireKeira Scholtens - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Health - PsychologySarah Grogan - Manchester Metropolitan University
- Publication details
- Journal of Health Psychology, Vol.30(2), pp.156-170
- Publisher
- Sage Publications Ltd.
- Date published
- 2025
- DOI
- 10.1177/13591053241238166
- ISSN
- 1461-7277
- PMID
- 38532273
- Data Availability
- The data generated during and/or analysed during the current study are not publicly available due to participants not giving permission for their transcripts to be publicly available, but are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request. Ethics approval, participant permissions, and all other relevant approvals were granted for this data sharing.
- Organisation Unit
- School of Health - Psychology
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 991014998402621
- Output Type
- Journal article
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