Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana.
Department of Human Development and Family Studies, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania.
Alcohol Clin Exp Res. 2020 Jan;44(1):203-211. doi: 10.1111/acer.14231. Epub 2019 Dec 5.
Alcohol use and misuse are prevalent on many college campuses. The current study examined participation in college environments where alcohol is present and being consumed. We documented students' alcohol consumption, social abstaining (i.e., attending an alcohol-present event, but not drinking), and refusing invitations to drinking events. We tested for differences by parental education, immigrant status, race-ethnicity, and gender. We charted longitudinal change across college.
First-year students attending a large public US university (n = 681, 18% first-generation college student, 16% first-generation immigrant, 73% racial-ethnic minority group member, 51% women) were recruited and followed longitudinally for 7 semesters. Each semester, students completed up to 14 daily surveys; responses were aggregated to the semester level (n = 4,267).
Multilevel logistic regression models demonstrated that first-generation college students were less likely to drink and refuse invitations to drinking events than students with a college-educated parent (Adjusted Odds Ratios [AORs]: 0.66, 0.72, respectively). Similarly, first-generation immigrants were less likely to drink, socially abstain, and refuse invitations (AORs: 0.58 to 0.73). Compared with White students, Black and Asian American students were less likely to drink (AORs: 0.55, 0.53) and refuse invitations to drinking events (AORs: 0.68, 0.66). The proportion of days spent drinking increased across college, and refusing invitations was the most common at the start and end of college.
First-generation college students, first-generation immigrant students, and Black and Asian students participated less in prodrinking environments during college. These findings indicate that on drinking and nondrinking days, students' participation in alcohol-present situations differed by background. Furthermore, our results indicate that the students who are most likely to refuse invitations to drinking events are the same students who drink most frequently.
许多大学校园都普遍存在饮酒和滥用酒精的现象。本研究考察了大学生活中存在和消费酒精的环境中的参与情况。我们记录了学生的饮酒量、社交戒酒(即参加有酒精的活动,但不饮酒)和拒绝参加饮酒活动的邀请。我们根据父母的教育程度、移民身份、种族和性别进行了差异测试。我们绘制了大学期间的纵向变化图。
一所大型美国公立大学的一年级学生(n=681,18%为第一代大学生,16%为第一代移民,73%为少数族裔群体成员,51%为女性)被招募并进行了 7 个学期的纵向跟踪研究。每个学期,学生完成多达 14 次每日调查;将反应汇总到学期水平(n=4267)。
多层次逻辑回归模型表明,与父母受过大学教育的学生相比,第一代大学生饮酒和拒绝参加饮酒活动的可能性较小(调整后的优势比[ORs]:0.66,0.72)。同样,第一代移民饮酒、社交戒酒和拒绝参加饮酒活动的可能性也较小(ORs:0.58 至 0.73)。与白人学生相比,黑人和亚裔美国学生饮酒(ORs:0.55,0.53)和拒绝参加饮酒活动的邀请(ORs:0.68,0.66)的可能性较小。整个大学期间,饮酒天数增加,而在大学开始和结束时,拒绝参加饮酒活动的情况最为常见。
第一代大学生、第一代移民学生和黑人和亚裔学生在大学期间较少参与支持饮酒的环境。这些发现表明,在饮酒日和非饮酒日,学生在有酒精存在的情况下参与的情况因背景而异。此外,我们的结果表明,最有可能拒绝参加饮酒活动邀请的学生也是最常饮酒的学生。