title: Drinking likelihood, alcohol problems, and peer influence among first-year college students.
abstract: 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).
authors.affiliation: School of Education, Department of Human Studies, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Alabama 35294, USA. ltalbott@uab.edu
authors.forename: Laura L
authors.initials: LL
authors.lastname: Talbott
authors.forename: Ryan J
authors.initials: RJ
authors.lastname: Martin
authors.forename: Stuart L
authors.initials: SL
authors.lastname: Usdan
authors.forename: James D
authors.initials: JD
authors.lastname: Leeper
authors.forename: M' Rénee
authors.initials: MR
authors.lastname: Umstattd
authors.forename: Jennifer L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Cremeens
authors.forename: Brian F
authors.initials: BF
authors.lastname: Geiger
mesh_terms: 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