Second, findings from studies of mandated students, including the current study, may need to be understood in the context of being mandated. Two recent studies from a different sample that compared a WF with a delayed treatment control reported that mandated students reduced alcohol use on their own prior to the PFI (Morgan et al., 2008), and there were no differences between students who received the WF and those who did not at 2 months post baseline (White et al., 2008). Therefore, reductions in alcohol use among mandated students post intervention may be attributed partially to cognitive and affective reactions to the incident for which they were mandated and subsequent self-regulation. In the present study, we did not have sufficient data on students’ alcohol use following the incident but prior to the PFI. Thus, it is unclear to what extent that students had self-regulated their drinking behaviors on their own prior to the PFI. Nonetheless, the findings from the present study suggest that mandated students following a serious incident tended to reduce their HED and AP over the long term
