Ups and downs of alcohol use among first-year college students: Number of drinks, heavy drinking, and stumble and pass out drinking days
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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.
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Maggs et al. (2011) found students who never planned to join drank 1/4 drinks fewer per weekday and 9/10 per weekend day in the summer prior to college than students who planned to join.
“More recently, Maggs, Williams, and Lee (2011), drawing on a somewhat smaller single-institution sample (n = 943), found students who never planned to join fraternities or sororities drank 1/4 drinks fewer per weekday and 9/10 per weekend day in the summer prior to college than students who planned to join.”
From The Influence of Fraternity and Sorority Involvement: A Critical Analysis of Research (1996–2013) (2014) · cites this paper as Maggs et al. (2011)
Results §3.4.1 reports the stated differences—1/4 fewer drinks per weekday and almost 9/10 fewer per weekend day—but compares students who never planned to join with students who became fraternity or sorority members, not all students who planned to join. Methods §2.1 says the drinking diaries were collected in the spring semester from a subset of the 943 students surveyed before college, so the claim also places the drinking measurements in the wrong period. (LLM, conf=0.94)
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- Authors
- Maggs, J. L., Williams, L. R., & Lee, C. M.
- Affiliations
- University of Arizona (US)
- Corresponding author
- Maggs, Jennifer L.
- Venue
- Addictive Behaviors
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2011-03
- Volume
- 36
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 197-202
- ISSN
- 0306-4603 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC3018543
- OpenAlex
- W2026232279
- Cited by
- 115
- References
- 1
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- FWCI
- 4.20
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- Addictive Behaviors (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- Alcoholic Beverage Medical Research Foundation
- National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (AA013763)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Epidemiology › Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Pathology and Forensic Medicine › Alcohol Consumption and Health Effects
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Health and Lifestyle Studies
- Keywords
- alcohol use patterns, first-year college students, emerging adults, binge drinking, heavy drinking, within-person variability, daily drinking, drinking motives, gender differences, weekend drinking
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent, Alcohol Drinking, Ethanol, Alcoholic Intoxication, Female, Humans, Male, Self Disclosure, Sex Factors, Students, Time Factors, United States, Universities, Age of Onset, Young Adult, Self Report
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