Crawford Lizabeth A, Novak Katherine B, Jayasekare Rasitha R
Department of Sociology, Criminology and Social Work, Bradley University, Peoria, IL, USA.
Department of Sociology and Criminology, Butler University, Indianapolis, IN, USA.
J Prim Prev. 2019 Aug;40(4):429-448. doi: 10.1007/s10935-019-00558-z.
First-year students of traditional college age often drink irresponsibly, especially if they believe that alcohol use is integral to the college experience. Individuals who subscribe to this view embrace their transitional status, recognize that they have relatively few role obligations, and thus regard the college years as the timeframe for drinking. Volunteerism, which places additional constraints on students' behaviors by facilitating their integration into mature adult society and increasing social responsibility, may be an avenue for reducing levels of alcohol consumption among this subgroup. Numerous studies have found an inverse relationship between involvement in service and levels of alcohol consumption among college undergraduates. Data from a prospective survey administered to a cohort of first-year students of traditional college age at the beginning, and again at the end of the fall semester, was used to assess the relationship between volunteerism, alcohol beliefs, and drinking behavior (n = 423). Zero inflated negative binomial regressions indicated that alcohol beliefs moderated the effects of participation in volunteer/service activities on the frequency of alcohol use and heavy drinking. In particular, there was a strong negative relationship between volunteerism and heavy drinking among first-year students who believed that the use of alcohol was integral to the college experience. This suggests that engaging first-year students with permissive alcohol beliefs in service activities is a way to curb their drinking early, by the end of the first college semester, before it becomes a more long-term pattern.
传统大学年龄的一年级学生饮酒往往不负责任，尤其是当他们认为饮酒是大学经历不可或缺的一部分时。认同这种观点的人接受自己的过渡状态，意识到自己的角色义务相对较少，因此将大学时光视为饮酒的时期。志愿服务通过促进学生融入成熟的成人社会并增强社会责任感，对学生的行为施加了额外的限制，这可能是减少这一亚群体酒精消费水平的一条途径。大量研究发现，参与服务与大学生酒精消费水平之间存在负相关关系。对一组传统大学年龄的一年级学生在秋季学期开始时和结束时进行的一项前瞻性调查的数据，被用于评估志愿服务、饮酒观念和饮酒行为之间的关系（n = 423）。零膨胀负二项回归表明，饮酒观念调节了参与志愿/服务活动对饮酒频率和重度饮酒的影响。特别是，在那些认为饮酒是大学经历不可或缺的一部分的一年级学生中，志愿服务与重度饮酒之间存在强烈的负相关关系。这表明，让持有宽容饮酒观念的一年级学生参与服务活动，是在大学第一学期结束前尽早遏制他们饮酒行为的一种方式，以免饮酒行为成为一种更长期的模式。
