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Gender differences in predicting high-risk drinking among undergraduate students.

Dina J Wilke1, Darcy Clay Siebert, Jorge Delva

  • 1College of Social Work, Florida State University, Tallahassee 32306-2570, USA. dwilke@mailer.fsu.edu

Journal of Drug Education
|November 8, 2005
PubMed
Summary

Gender influences college students' high-risk drinking pathways. For men, individual and contextual factors are key. For women, interpersonal factors, alongside individual and contextual elements, also predict risky alcohol consumption.

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Area of Science:

  • Psychology
  • Sociology
  • Public Health

Background:

  • High-risk drinking is a significant concern among college students.
  • Understanding gender-specific predictors of high-risk drinking is crucial for effective interventions.
  • A developmental/contextual framework informs the conceptualization of college drinking behavior.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate gender differences in college students' high-risk drinking.
  • To identify individual, interpersonal, and contextual factors associated with high-risk drinking.
  • To analyze the pathways predicting high-risk drinking separately for men and women.

Main Methods:

  • Secondary data analysis of 1,422 college students from a large Southeastern university.
  • Data collected via a probability-based mail survey.

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  • Three-step hierarchical logistic regression used to analyze predictors of estimated blood alcohol concentration (eBAC).

    • Main Results:

    • Significant gender differences were observed in the predictors of high-risk drinking.
    • For men, high-risk drinking was associated with individual and contextual factors.
    • For women, interpersonal factors, in addition to individual and contextual factors, predicted high-risk drinking.

    Conclusions:

    • The pathways to high-risk drinking differ significantly between male and female college students.
    • Interpersonal factors, particularly related to sexual relationships, play a unique role in female high-risk drinking.
    • Findings have implications for developing gender-tailored prevention and assessment strategies for college alcohol misuse.