National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.
Drug Alcohol Rev. 2012 Jan;31(1):27-32. doi: 10.1111/j.1465-3362.2011.00307.x. Epub 2011 Mar 31.
The false consensus effect (FCE) is the tendency for people to assume that others share their attitudes and behaviours to a greater extent than they actually do. The FCE has been demonstrated for a range of health behaviours, including substance use. The study aimed to explore the relationship between elite athlete's engagement in recreational drug use and their consensus estimates (the FCE) and to determine whether those who engage in the behaviour overestimate the use of others around them.
The FCE was investigated among 974 elite Australian athletes who were classified according to their drug use history.
Participants tended to report that there was a higher prevalence of drug use among athletes in general compared with athletes in their sport, and these estimates appeared to be influenced by participants' drug use history. While overestimation of drug use by participants was not common, this overestimation also appeared to be influenced by athletes' drug use history.
The results suggest that athletes who have a history of illicit drug use overestimate the prevalence of drug use among athletes. These findings may be helpful in the formulation of normative education initiatives.
虚假共识效应（FCE）是指人们倾向于认为他人在态度和行为上与自己的相似度超过实际情况。FCE 已经在一系列健康行为中得到了证明，包括药物使用。本研究旨在探讨精英运动员参与娱乐性药物使用与他们的共识估计（FCE）之间的关系，并确定那些从事该行为的人是否高估了周围人的使用情况。
在根据药物使用史分类的 974 名澳大利亚精英运动员中调查了 FCE。
参与者倾向于报告说，与他们所在运动项目中的运动员相比，一般运动员中药物使用的流行程度更高，这些估计似乎受到参与者药物使用史的影响。虽然参与者对药物使用的高估并不常见，但这种高估似乎也受到运动员药物使用史的影响。
结果表明，有非法药物使用史的运动员高估了运动员中药物使用的流行程度。这些发现可能有助于制定规范性教育计划。
