title: Ups and downs of alcohol use among first-year college students: Number of drinks, heavy drinking, and stumble and pass out drinking days.
abstract: Given the dynamic fluctuating nature of alcohol use among emerging adults (Del Boca, Darkes, Greenbaum, & Goldman, 2004), patterns of alcohol use were modeled across 70 days in an intensive repeated-measures diary design. Two hundred first-year college students provided 10 weekly reports of their daily alcohol consumption via computer-assisted telephone interviews. Multi-level models demonstrated large within-person variability across days in drinks consumed, binge drinking, and days exceeding self-reported limits for stumbling around and passing out; these outcome variables were predicted by weekdays vs. weekend days (within-person) and gender, age of drinking initiation, fraternity/sorority membership, and alcohol motivations (between-persons). Repeated measurement of alternate indicators of alcohol use permits the examination of novel and important questions about alcohol use and abuse particularly in young adult and other erratically drinking populations.
authors.affiliation: University of Arizona, Tucson, 85721-0078, United States. jmaggs@psu.edu
authors.forename: Jennifer L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Maggs
authors.forename: Lela Rankin
authors.initials: LR
authors.lastname: Williams
authors.forename: Christine M
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: Lee
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D017668:Age of Onset; D000428:Alcohol Drinking / Q000453:epidemiology*; D000435:Alcoholic Intoxication / Q000453:epidemiology*; D000431:Ethanol / Q000506:poisoning*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012650:Self Disclosure; D057566:Self Report; D012737:Sex Factors; D013334:Students / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D013997:Time Factors; D014481:United States; D014495:Universities; D055815:Young Adult
chemical_list: D000431:Ethanol