High-risk drinking among young adults: the influence of race and college enrollment.
This secondary data analysis of the 2001 National Household Survey on Drug Abuse examines the influence of individual, interpersonal, and contextual social risk and protective factors on high risk drinking, focusing on the influence of minority status and college enrollment among 5,895 young adults. Hierarchical regression predicted 39.4% of the variance in high-risk drinking. Being male, increased risk-taking behavior, being older, and higher numbers of friends getting drunk all positively influenced high-risk drinking, and disapproval of daily drinking reduced high-risk drinking. Interaction effects showed all significant variables to be more influential for Whites than Blacks, including college attendance.
Siebert
Darcy Clay
DC
Florida State University, College of Social Work, Tallahassee, Florida 32306-2570, USA. dsiebert@fsu.edu
Wilke
Dina J
DJ
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000428:Alcohol Drinking / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000523:psychology*; D001290:Attitude; D044383:Black People; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male; D008913:Minority Groups; D012067:Religion; D012309:Risk-Taking; D012737:Sex Factors; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology*; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology; D044465:White People; D001741:Black or African American