Alcohol Use and Sex in College: Developmental Change

大学中的饮酒和性行为：发展变化

基本信息

批准号：
7147653
负责人：
JENNIFER L MAGGS
金额：
$ 30.33万
依托单位：
PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY, THE
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
财政年份：
2006
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2006-08-01 至 2011-07-31
项目状态：
已结题

项目摘要

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Alcohol use is often assumed to increase sexual risk taking, but empirical evidence for event-level associations is inconsistent. The CHOICES study will examine the co-variation of alcohol use and sexual behavior as they change developmental^ across college and contextually across relationships and situations. Based on a developmental contextual perspective, CHOICES will utilize a longitudinal plus event- based diary design combining longitudinal data across 7 semesters (31/2 years) of college and event-level data across 5 weeks each semester. A multi-ethnic sample of 612 African American, Asian American, European American, and Latino American emerging adult college students will complete a series of web- based surveys. Specific aims are to: (1) Track developmental trajectories of alcohol use, sexual behavior, and their co-variation across college; (2) Model event-level associations between alcohol use and sexual behavior; and (3) Identify person-level (e.g., gender, ethnicity), developmentally-changing (e.g., religiosity, drinking motivations), and contextually-fluctuating (e.g., partner characteristics) predictors of alcohol use, sexual behavior, and their associations. In addition to alcohol use and sexual behaviors, outcomes will include short-term consequences, health events, and academic performance. Analyses will address for whom alcohol use predicts sexual risk taking, under what circumstances, and how this association changes developmentally across the college years. Self-reports from the longitudinal and event-level web surveys will be supplemented by investigator-coded local and campus events and by academic record data through senior year. Open-ended perceptions of change in behavior will be coded to complement the quantitative ... data/Analyses will test predictions from alcohol expectancy models, alcohol myopia theory, and a routine activities perspective on situational deviance using latent growth curve modeling and multi-level models. Alcohol use and sexual behavior are primary causes of morbidity and mortality for adolescents and emerging adults. Pathways taken and lifestyles established during this pivotal period may impact health throughout " adulthood. Little longitudinal research has intensively tracked the alcohol use and sexual behaviors of multi- ethnic samples of emerging adults. The CHOICES study will provide new information about the developmental and situational co-variation of alcohol use and sexual behavior, and the extent to which these links vary by person-level, developmentally-changing, and environmental variables. This examination of whether alcohol use predicts sexual risk taking within an ethnically-diverse sample of college students will inform prevention and policy development by identifying characteristics of students and of situations most at risk for hazardous behaviors.

描述（由申请人提供）：通常假定使用饮酒来增加性风险，但事件级关联的经验证据是不一致的。选择研究将研究饮酒和性行为的共同变化，因为它们在整个大学和情境之间改变了发展的发展。基于发展上下文的观点，选择将利用纵向加上事件的日记设计，该设计在每个学期的5周内组合了7个学期（31/2年）的大学和事件级别数据的纵向数据。一个多民族的612个非洲裔美国人，亚裔美国人，欧洲裔美国人和拉丁美洲裔美国新兴的成人大学生将完成一系列基于网络的调查。具体目的是：（1）迹象的发展轨迹，性行为及其在整个大学的共同变化；（2）饮酒与性行为之间的模型事件级关联；（3）确定人级（例如性别，种族），变化变化（例如，宗教信仰，饮酒动机），以及上下文上脱颖而出的（例如，伴侣特征）酒精使用，性行为及其联想的预测指标。除了饮酒和性行为外，结果还将包括短期后果，健康事件和学习成绩。分析将解决酒精使用预测性风险的人，在什么情况下以及该协会在整个大学期间如何发展。纵向和事件级网络调查的自我报告将由研究人员编码的本地和校园活动以及高年级的学术记录数据补充。对行为变化的开放看法将被编码以补充定量...数据/分析将测试酒精预期模型，酒精近视理论的预测以及使用潜在的增长曲线建模和多层模型对情境偏差的常规活动观点。饮酒和性行为是青少年和新兴成年人发病率和死亡率的主要原因。在这个关键时期所采取的途径和生活方式可能会影响整个整个健康状况。几乎没有纵向研究对新兴成年人的多民族样本的饮酒和性行为进行了深入的追踪。选择研究将提供有关这些新信息的信息，这些信息将提供有关这些范围的发展和情境共同的饮酒和性行为，以及这些环境的发展，并依次将各种与人联系起来。对酒精使用的研究是否预测在大学生的种族多样性样本中采取性风险将通过确定学生的特征以及最有危险行为风险的情况来为预防和政策制定提供信息。