McMaster J, Keshav C
Department of Psychology, University of Zimbabwe, Avondale, Harare.
Cent Afr J Med. 1994 Apr;40(4):88-94.
Perceptions of the normal or no-problem use of alcohol held by male and female high school students were investigated. A sample of 127 male and 113 female high school students were asked to indicate their perceptions of the normal use of alcohol for their own sex and the opposite sex using a structured questionnaire. The students were also asked to select from a list of reasons those reasons they considered were non-problem reasons for using alcohol. Male and female students set levels of normal alcohol use for males that were significantly higher than those set for females. Over half the male sample and a large proportion of the female students selected inappropriate reasons for using alcohol. Appropriate health education programmes based on these findings are discussed; in particular the need to educate adolescents to recognize and deal with their inappropriate reasons for using alcohol.
对高中男生和女生对酒精正常或无问题使用的认知进行了调查。选取了127名高中男生和113名高中女生作为样本，要求他们使用一份结构化问卷表明对自己性别和异性正常使用酒精的认知。还要求学生从一系列原因中选出他们认为是饮酒的无问题原因。男生和女生为男性设定的正常饮酒水平显著高于为女性设定的水平。超过一半的男生样本和很大一部分女生选择了不恰当的饮酒原因。基于这些发现讨论了合适的健康教育计划；特别是需要教育青少年认识并处理他们饮酒的不恰当原因。
