Reasons given by college students for drinking: a discriminant analysis investigation.
Based on self-reported levels of alcohol consumption, 473 college students (295 female and 178 male) were placed into at-risk or not-at-risk groups. Using reasons given for drinking as the independent variables, discriminant analysis procedures were conducted separately on the males and females to determine if a function could be found which would discriminate between the groups. For the female group, 11 of 22 reasons defined a discriminant function which accounted for 36% of the variance between the groups (p < .001). This function was also able to correctly classify 71% of the holdout sample. For the males, five of the 22 reasons defined a discriminant function which accounted for 36% of the variance between the groups (p < .001). This function was able to correctly classify 69% of the holdout sample.
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Department of Applied Health Science, Indiana University, Bloomington 47405.
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D000328:Adult; D000428:Alcohol Drinking / Q000523:psychology*; D000437:Alcoholism / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000523:psychology; D016002:Discriminant Analysis; D005260:Female; D006266:Health Education; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009042:Motivation; D012307:Risk Factors; D012931:Social Environment; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology*