Department of Psychology.
Psychol Addict Behav. 2022 Nov;36(7):837-848. doi: 10.1037/adb0000849. Epub 2022 Jun 23.
College athletes are a high-risk group for heavy drinking and related risky behaviors and consequences. However, most prior work examining drinking behavior in college athletes has been cross-sectional. Drinking norms predict drinking among athletes, but other potential risk factors, including personality traits have received limited attention.
Using data from a large sample ( = 2,245) of college students, we examined athletic participation, high-risk personality traits (i.e., impulsivity, sensation seeking), and perceptions of peer drinking behavior (descriptive and injunctive norms) as predictors of binge drinking from prior to college entry through 2 years postcollege. Negative binomial latent growth models were used to examine these predictors of patterns of drinking across the college years.
Binge drinking increased through the first 3 years of college before leveling off and decreasing postcollege. Controlling for significant effects of sensation seeking and perceptions of peer attitudes and drinking behaviors, athletic participation at T1 was associated with greater binge drinking at matriculation and greater athletic participation was associated with greater risk across the college years. Normative perceptions and sensation seeking also predicted concurrent drinking in Year 4 of college and impulsivity emerged as an additional predictor. Sensation seeking emerged as a significant predictor of greater postcollege binge drinking. Athletic participation in Year 4 of college indicated no significant risk for greater binge drinking during Year 4 or following graduation.
Early participation in competitive athletics was associated with risk for binge drinking, even when accounting for several social and personality factors. Future studies using momentary assessment may be fruitful for identifying within-subject pathways of risk, including athlete specific factors. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved).
大学生运动员是酗酒和相关风险行为及后果的高危群体。然而，大多数先前研究大学生运动员饮酒行为的工作都是横断面的。饮酒规范可以预测运动员的饮酒行为，但其他潜在的风险因素，包括人格特质，受到的关注有限。
利用一项大型样本（n=2245）的大学生数据，我们考察了运动参与、高风险人格特质（即冲动性、寻求刺激）以及对同伴饮酒行为的看法（描述性和规范性规范），这些因素预测了从大学入学前到大学毕业后 2 年的 binge drinking 行为。采用负二项式潜增长模型来检验这些因素对大学生饮酒模式的预测作用。
在大学头 3 年， binge drinking 呈上升趋势，然后趋于平稳，毕业后下降。控制了寻求刺激和同伴态度和饮酒行为的感知的显著影响后，T1 的运动参与与入学时 binge drinking 增加和整个大学期间的风险增加有关。规范的感知和寻求刺激也预测了大学四年级的同期饮酒，冲动性成为另一个预测因素。寻求刺激也成为毕业后 binge drinking 增加的一个显著预测因素。大学四年级的运动参与与大学四年级或毕业后 binge drinking 增加没有显著风险。
早期参与竞技体育与 binge drinking 风险有关，即使考虑到一些社会和人格因素也是如此。使用即时评估的未来研究可能有助于确定风险的个体内途径，包括运动员特定因素。（PsycInfo 数据库记录（c）2022 APA，保留所有权利）。
