University of Maryland, United States.
Arizona State University, United States.
Addict Behav. 2018 Jan;76:243-249. doi: 10.1016/j.addbeh.2017.08.016. Epub 2017 Aug 24.
Alcohol consumption among women has steadily increased over the past 30years, and women's drinking behavior is now similar to that of men's. The escalation of alcohol use among women highlights the critical need to examine gender issues and motivational factors that contribute to binge drinking and related problems within this population. Feminine norms or the socially constructed beliefs, messages and attitudes about what it means to be a woman may contribute to within-group differences in drinking patterns among women. The current study examined the relationship between multidimensional feminine norms and binge drinking and alcohol-related problems among 1910 college women. Participants completed a self-report measure of binge drinking, alcohol-related problems, conformity to feminine norms, alcohol expectancies and descriptive norms. Controlling for the covariates descriptive norms, positive alcohol expectancies, and sorority membership, adherence to feminine norms related to sexual fidelity and belief that one needs to be sweet and nice were negatively associated to binge drinking, while adhering to investment in appearance was positively associated to binge drinking and alcohol-related problems. Distinct feminine norms also had a significant indirect effect on alcohol-related problems through binge drinking. This study significant contributes to the literature by elucidating the theoretically gender-relevant risk and protective aspects of feminine norms in relation to binge drinking and related problems, and provides important information that might be used in clinical and prevention efforts to reduce alcohol-related harm among a vulnerable group: college women.
在过去的 30 年中，女性的饮酒量稳步增加，现在女性的饮酒行为与男性相似。女性饮酒量的增加突显了一个关键需求，即需要研究性别问题和促成女性群体中 binge drinking 及相关问题的激励因素。女性气质规范或关于女性意味着什么的社会构建信念、信息和态度，可能导致女性群体内部的饮酒模式存在差异。本研究考察了多维女性气质规范与 1910 名女大学生 binge drinking 和与酒精相关问题之间的关系。参与者完成了一份关于 binge drinking、与酒精相关问题、对女性气质规范的遵从、对酒精的期望和描述性规范的自我报告测量。在控制了描述性规范、积极的酒精期望和姐妹会成员身份等协变量后，遵守与性忠贞和需要甜美善良相关的女性气质规范与 binge drinking 呈负相关，而遵守注重外表的规范与 binge drinking 和与酒精相关的问题呈正相关。不同的女性气质规范也通过 binge drinking 对与酒精相关的问题有显著的间接影响。这项研究通过阐明与 binge drinking 和相关问题有关的女性气质规范在理论上具有性别相关性的风险和保护方面，为文献做出了重要贡献，并提供了可能用于临床和预防工作以减少一个脆弱群体：女大学生中与酒精相关的伤害的重要信息。
