Drinking likelihood, alcohol problems, and peer influence among first-year college students.
Excessive alcohol consumption is a predominant health concern on college campuses in the United States. A stepwise multiple regression analysis was used to examine the predictive values of demographic factors in relation to alcohol subscales (Drinking Context Scale, College Alcohol Problems Scale-revised, and Social Modeling Scale) with the outcome of number of drinking days in the past 30 days among a sample (n = 224) of first-year college students. The final model predicted 37.5% of the variability in drinking days in the past month. All variables, except for race, were significantly associated with the outcome (p < .05).
Talbott
Laura L
LL
School of Education, Department of Human Studies, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Alabama 35294, USA. ltalbott@uab.edu
Martin
Ryan J
RJ
Usdan
Stuart L
SL
Leeper
James D
JD
Umstattd
M' Rénee
MR
Cremeens
Jennifer L
JL
Geiger
Brian F
BF
D000328:Adult; D000428:Alcohol Drinking / Q000453:epidemiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010379:Peer Group; D015995:Prevalence; D012737:Sex Factors; D013334:Students / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014495:Universities