Although binge drinking is a prevalent and often problematic behavior among college students, there has been relatively little sociological research on this phenomenon. This study evaluates the applicability of social learning theory (Akers 19852000) to the binge drinking of a sample of approximately 1...
college students. The roots of drinking habits lie within social, cultural and developmental layers. The main cause is the age of the drinkers. It is well known that in this period a person does not have stable number of principles and the habit to resist social influence of some kind. ...
Changes in Heavy Drinking Over the Third Decade of Life as a Function of Collegiate Fraternity and Sorority Involvement: A Prospective, Multilevel Analysis. Health Psychology, 1–31. Google Scholar Berkowitz, A. D., & Perkins, H. W. (1986). Problem Drinking among College Students: A ...
programs would need to reach college students at all three levels—the environment, individual personality traits, and cognitive processes. Future research should address the limitations in the previous research as well as test comprehensive models of college drinking. ...
Binge Drinking has been argued to be the number one public health hazard and the primary source of preventable morbidity and mortality for the the more than 6 million college students in the United States. Binge drinking often begins in adolescence and continues into young adulthood. Recent estimat...
students are drinking excessively, but a fairly large number of students arebinge-drinking. The survey found that 37.9% of full-time college students had engaged in binge-drinking in the past month. Binge-drinking is defined as consuming five or more drinks in one sitting for men and four ...
Problematic drinking is a widespread problem among college students, and can contribute to alcohol dependence during later adulthood, particularly among females. The current study assessed vulnerability for alcohol-related consequences by comparing self-reported drinking with coping styles and physiological and...
During a bout of high-intensity drinking, a person might drink 10 or more drinks, and a recent University of Michigan Institute for Social Research study has found that this kind of drinking is reported mostly among college students. Ad ...
(1998). Changes in binge drinking and related problems among American college students between 1993 and 1997: Results of the Harvard School and Public Health College Alcohol Study. Journal of American College Health, 47(2), 57 - 68.Wechsler, H., Dowdall, G. W., Maenner, G., Gledhill-...
The relationship between drinking patterns of college students and their measured level of assertiveness was examined in this study. The subjects were categorized into six groups based on their self-reported frequency and amount of drinking. They were also asked to record the number of drinks they ...