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Chunk #5 — Introduction — The Importance of Personality for Drinking Risk Among College Students

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The role of personality dispositions to risky behavior in predicting first-year college drinking.
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When individuals make a transition into a new context, particularly one that provides new levels of behavioral freedom, personality appears to play a particularly important role in influencing behavior [17]. In new contexts, one has less information about how to behave adaptively and appropriately; as a result, one’s disposition plays a larger role in shaping one’s perceptions and responses [17].