College Attendance and Heavy Drinking in Young Adulthood

青年时期的大学入学率和酗酒

• 批准号: 6651003
• 负责人: MALLIE J PASCHALL
• 金额: $ 18.84万
• 依托单位: PACIFIC INSTITUTE FOR RES AND EVALUATION
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2002
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2002-09-01 至 2005-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6651003
• 关键词: African American; Asian Americans; Hispanic Americans; academic achievement; adolescence (12-20); alcoholic beverage consumption; alcoholism /alcohol abuse; behavioral /social science research tag; caucasian American; clinical research; consumer product; family genetics; family structure /dynamics; gender difference; housing; human data; longitudinal human study; peer group; personality; racial /ethnic difference; role; substance abuse epidemiology; substance abuse related behavior; university; young adult human (21-34)

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): A number of epidemiological and etiological studies suggest that college attendance increases the likelihood of heavy drinking and related health and social problems in young adulthood. However, the research literature has not adequately addressed the extent to which the relationship between college attendance and heavy drinking and relatedproblems may be attributable to pre-existing factors in adolescence (e.g., parent drinking/alcoholism, alcohol availability at home, peer drinking), rather than factors more directly linked with college attendance. Further research is also needed to better understand the role of various contextual and individual factors in young adulthood (e.g., adult roles/responsibilities, living arrangement, local alcohol availability) in helping to explain the relationship between college attendance and heavy drinking/related problems. This study will address these issues using two waves of longitudinal data from a national probability sample of adolescents and young adults. It will also examine racial/ethnicdifferences in the relationship between college attendance and heavy drinking/related problems, as some research suggests that college attendance increases the likelihood of alcohol misuse among whites, but not African Americans. Secondary aims of this study are to examine and explain the possible moderating effects of gender, and differences in heavy drinking/related problems across young adult subgroups (e.g., 2-year versus 4-year college students). This study will utilize two waves of interview data collected for the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health). In-home interviews were conducted in 1995 with 20,745 adolescents and their parents and siblings, and these individuals are being re-interviewed in young adulthood (2001-2002). The Add Health study uses state-of-the-art audio computer-assisted interviewing technology and geocodes respondent addresses to support contextual analyses. This study will geocode alcohol outlet addresses available from State Alcohol Beverage Control and local government offices and will link measures of local alcohol outlet density with the geocoded addresses of Add Health subjects to assess the explanatory value of local alcohol availability measures. The Add Health study provides an excellent opportunity to address important questions about the relationship between college attendance and heavy drinking/related problems with longitudinal data from a large nationally representative sample, and without the cost and time required to initiate a new prospective cohort study. Findings of this study will help to inform prevention strategies targeting college students and other young adults at high risk for alcohol-related problems.

描述（由申请人提供）：许多流行病学和病因学研究表明，上大学会增加年轻人酗酒以及相关健康和社会问题的可能性。然而，研究文献并没有充分说明大学入学率与酗酒和相关问题之间的关系在多大程度上可能归因于青春期预先存在的因素（例如，父母饮酒/酗酒、家里有酒精、同伴饮酒），而不是与大学出勤率更直接相关的因素。还需要进一步的研究来更好地理解青年时期各种背景和个人因素（例如成人角色/责任、生活安排、当地酒精供应）的作用，以帮助解释大学入学率与酗酒/相关问题之间的关系。这项研究将使用来自青少年和年轻人的全国概率样本的两波纵向数据来解决这些问题。它还将研究大学入学率与酗酒/相关问题之间关系的种族/民族差异，因为一些研究表明，大学入学率会增加白人而非非裔美国人滥用酒精的可能性。 本研究的次要目的是检查和解释性别可能的调节作用，以及年轻成人亚组（例如，两年制与四年制大学生）中酗酒/相关问题的差异。 这项研究将利用为国家青少年健康纵向研究（Add Health）收集的两波访谈数据。 1995 年对 20,745 名青少年及其父母和兄弟姐妹进行了家庭访谈，这些人在成年初期（2001-2002 年）又接受了重新访谈。 Add Health 研究使用最先进的音频计算机辅助访谈技术并对受访者地址进行地理编码以支持上下文分析。本研究将对州酒精饮料管制局和当地政府办公室提供的酒精出口地址进行地理编码，并将当地酒精出口密度的测量值与 Add Health 受试者的地理编码地址联系起来，以评估当地酒精可用性测量值的解释价值。 Add Health 研究提供了一个极好的机会，可以利用来自全国性代表性样本的纵向数据来解决有关大学出勤率与酗酒/相关问题之间关系的重要问题，并且无需启动新的前瞻性队列研究所需的成本和时间。这项研究的结果将有助于为大学生和其他酒精相关问题高危年轻人制定预防策略。