Many students drink more during their 21st birthday celebration than they plan to drink – especially when drinking shots, chugging, or engaging in … [Read More]

Driving after drinking alcohol is related to where students lived while in college. Quinn, P.D. & Fromme, K., (2011). Psychology of Addictive … [Read More]

College students drink more heavily on football game days. Whereas male students drink more than usual during both home and away games, women drink … [Read More]

Drinking for social reasons contributes to more positive beliefs about alcohol effects, more permissive attitudes toward drinking, perceptions of … [Read More]

Heavier drinkers engage in more risky behaviors, such as using illicit drugs, drinking and driving, having unsafe sex, and acting aggressively. A … [Read More]

People who act aggressively while drinking experience greater social and emotional consequences as a result of their behavior. These results suggest … [Read More]

The earlier students begin drinking and the younger they are when they first become intoxicated are associated with their subsequent drinking … [Read More]

Although male college students report heavier drinking than female college students overall, these differences are larger for Latino than for … [Read More]

The frequency of college students’ drinking increases from age 18 to 23, but the quantity consumed per occasion begins to decrease at age 21. Perhaps … [Read More]

The correlation between heavy drinking and dating violence is different for men and women across time. Among freshmen men, heavier drinkers are more … [Read More]

Web-based daily assessments yield good response rates and are less of a burden on participants than other approaches to daily assessments. These daily … [Read More]

During high school, your drinking is influenced by how much you think your parents know and care about your behavior. In college, however, your … [Read More]

By the end of high school lesbian and bisexual (LB) women are heavier drinkers than heterosexual women, but LB women do not increase their drinking at … [Read More]

Drinking during 21st birthday celebrations is explained by various situational and contextual factors (e.g., location of celebration; peer influence). … [Read More]

The more students believe their parents and peers know about their behavior, the fewer sexual partners they have and the greater their likelihood of … [Read More]

The consequences of drinking may have to do as much with how much alcohol affects you as with how much alcohol you consume. Quinn, P.D., & Fromme, … [Read More]

Alcohol affects each person differently, even when they consume the same amount. These differences in subjective response to alcohol predict … [Read More]

Across the college years, strong academic motives predict lower levels of alcohol consumption and related problems, whereas strong social motives … [Read More]

Compared to students who do not engage in organized sports, college athletes don’t believe drinking and sex are as risky as non-athletes do. As a … [Read More]

Students who experience more discrimination, regardless of type (e.g., race, gender, weight, sexual orientation), report more negative moods and a … [Read More]

College students choose to spend time with peers with whom they share similar drinking habits, and, in turn, their drinking habits are influenced by … [Read More]

By reducing the number of items in a commonly used measure of alcohol-related problems, we can identify questions that capture the same information … [Read More]

Although Asian-American young adults are typically considered a low risk group, lower levels of parental knowledge/caring relate to more permissive … [Read More]

The personality trait of self-control helps protect young adults from behavioral risks, including heavy drinking and its consequences and risky sexual … [Read More]

During the transition from high school to college, use of alcohol and marijuana increases, as does the number of sexual partners. In contrast, … [Read More]