Slutske Wendy S, Hunt-Carter Erin E, Nabors-Oberg Rachel E, Sher Kenneth J, Bucholz Kathleen K, Madden Pamela A F, Anokhin Andrey, Heath Andrew C
Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Missouri, 210 McAlester Hall, Columbia, MO 65211, USA.
J Abnorm Psychol. 2004 Nov;113(4):530-40. doi: 10.1037/0021-843X.113.4.530.
The association of college attendance with alcohol use and alcohol use disorders was examined in a population-based young adult female twin sample identified from a systematic search of birth records. College-attending women consumed a larger overall volume of alcohol than did their non-college-attending peers, but they were not more likely to be diagnosed with an alcohol use disorder. Significant associations between college attendance and alcohol involvement were probed using 3 different complementary research designs: multivariate cross-sectional analyses, longitudinal analyses of the precollege and college years, and cotwin-control analyses of twin pairs discordant for attending college. Although demographic and lifestyle characteristics accounted for most or all of the association between college attendance and alcohol involvement, there was 1 aspect of drinking behavior, occasionally consuming large quantities of alcohol, that remained significantly associated with college attendance even after controlling for these characteristics or for genetic and family background factors. These results are consistent with the conclusion that some aspect of the college experience may be an important environmental risk factor for this pattern of drinking among young adults.
通过对出生记录进行系统检索，在一个基于人群的年轻成年女性双胞胎样本中，研究了上大学与饮酒及酒精使用障碍之间的关联。上大学的女性总体饮酒量比未上大学的同龄人更大，但她们被诊断为酒精使用障碍的可能性并不更高。使用三种不同的互补研究设计，对上大学与饮酒之间的显著关联进行了探究：多变量横断面分析、大学前和大学期间的纵向分析，以及对是否上大学不一致的双胞胎对进行的同卵双胞胎对照分析。尽管人口统计学和生活方式特征解释了上大学与饮酒之间的大部分或全部关联，但饮酒行为的一个方面，即偶尔大量饮酒，即使在控制了这些特征或遗传及家庭背景因素之后，仍与上大学显著相关。这些结果与以下结论一致，即大学经历的某些方面可能是年轻人这种饮酒模式的一个重要环境风险因素。
