title: Multilevel analysis of situational drinking among Canadian undergraduates.
abstract: Using a multi-level approach, we examined the contribution of drinking setting characteristics and of individual characteristics on the alcohol intake per drinking occasion. The data are drawn from the Canadian Campus Survey, a national mail survey conducted in 1998 with a random sample of 8,864 students in 18 universities. For each student, up to five drinking occasions were investigated, resulting in 26,348 drinking occasions among 6,850 drinkers. At the individual level this study focused on the university life experience. At the situational level, information about alcohol intake was recorded relative to why, when, where and with whom drinking occurred. Our results show that drinking setting is as important as the individual characteristics in explaining the alcohol intake per occasion. Policies aimed at reducing students alcohol intake may be more beneficial if they address both situational and individual factors.
authors.affiliation: Groupe de recherche sur les aspects sociaux de la santé et de la prévention, Université de Montréal, Québec, Canada. andree.demers@umontreal.ca
authors.forename: Andrée
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Demers
authors.forename: Sylvia
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kairouz
authors.forename: Edward M
authors.initials: EM
authors.lastname: Adlaf
authors.forename: Louis
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Gliksman
authors.forename: Brenda
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Newton-Taylor
authors.forename: Alain
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Marchand
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000428:Alcohol Drinking / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000523:psychology; D002170:Canada / Q000453:epidemiology; D003657:Decision Making; D005260:Female; D015438:Health Behavior; D006306:Health Surveys; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male; D011336:Probability; D012044:Regression Analysis; D012931:Social Environment; D012933:Social Identification; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014495:Universities