Clinical relevance of heavy drinking during the college years: Cross-sectional and prospective perspectives.

O'neill, Susan; Parra, Gilbert R.; Sher, Kenneth J.

doi:10.1037/0893-164x.15.4.350

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“…Of particular importance is the finding that those identified as binge drinkers by the new past-year measure were at elevated risk for possible alcohol abuse, controlling for past 2-week binge drinking. This result is consistent with previous work showing that binge drinking correlates with alcohol-dependence symptoms in college students (Knight et al, 2002;O'Neill et al, 2001) and noncollege samples (Midanik, 1999). Taken together, these results suggest that the new past-year measure captures a dimension of risky alcohol involvement in college students that is not fully assessed by the standard measure.…”

Section: Comparison Of Standard and New Measures Of Binge Drinkingsupporting

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A New Measure of Binge Drinking: Prevalence and Correlates in a Probability Sample of Undergraduates

Cranford

McCabe

Boyd

2006

Alcoholism Clin & Exp Res

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Background-A standard measure defines binge drinking as the consumption of 5 or more drinks in a row for men (4 or more drinks for women) on at least 1 occasion during the past 2 weeks. A revised operational definition of binge drinking was developed by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism in 2004 and incorporated the duration of the drinking episode in addition to the quantity of alcohol consumed. This study compares the standard and new binge measures for overall and subgroup prevalence rates; associations with gender, race/ethnicity, and age of drinking onset; and associations with negative drinking consequences.

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A New Measure of Binge Drinking: Prevalence and Correlates in a Probability Sample of Undergraduates

Cranford

McCabe

Boyd

2006

Alcoholism Clin & Exp Res

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“…Heavy (or binge) alcohol consumption is related to higher probabilities of alcohol-related consequences (Harford, Wechsler, & Muthén, 2002;O'Hare, 1990;O'Neill, Parra, & Sher, 2001;Wechsler & Nelson, 2001) and higher rates of diagnosable AUDs, both cross-sectionally and prospectively (O'Neill et al, 2001; we note that prospective analyses suggest that this relation may be more robust during late adolescence than during later young adulthood, as individuals become more experienced with drinking alcohol).…”

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Similarities and Differences of Longitudinal Phenotypes Across Alternate Indices of Alcohol Involvement: A Methodologic Comparison of Trajectory Approaches.

Jackson¹,

Sher²

2005

Psychology of Addictive Behaviors

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Extant developmental research distinguishing young adults who moderate versus persist in alcohol consumption has not consistently evaluated the domain of alcohol involvement being modeled, making it difficult to compare findings across studies. In the present study, the authors characterized the developmental course of 5 indices of alcohol involvement using a prospective (6-wave) sample of 377 young adults (Year 1 age = 18.52 years; 55% female; 51% with family history of alcoholism) over 11 years. Growth mixture models were applied to each measure. Despite similarity in trajectory shape, predicted prevalences varied, and the consistency of trajectory classifications across alternate indices revealed low agreement. Correlates of drinking course, however, were somewhat robust across alcohol index. The finding that trajectories are conditional on the specific indices used suggests that it may be hazardous to generalize across alternate indices of alcohol involvement. Keywordsalcohol; drinking; trajectory; course; developmental Early young adulthood (ages 18-25 years) represents the period of peak prevalence for alcohol use (Gallup Organization, 1987) and alcohol use disorders (AUDs) (Grant, 1997), and the transition from high school to college is a time of risk for heavy drinking (Baer, Kivlahan, & Marlatt, 1995;Johnston, O'Malley, & Bachman, 2002a, 2002b. As young adults age beyond college, however, many exhibit a tendency to moderate heavy alcohol involvement (Donovan, Jessor, & Jessor, 1983;Perkins, 1999). In the population, alcohol consumption (particularly heavy drinking), problem drinking, and AUDs tend to peak in the early 20s and then show a decline over the third decade of life (Dawson, Grant, Stinson, & Chou, 2004; Fillmore, 1988;Jessor, Donovan, & Costa, 1991;Johnston et al., 2002aJohnston et al., , 2002bMuthén & Muthén, 2000). Against this normative decrease, many young adults continue to drink heavily (Windle, 1988), continue to have drinking problems (Fillmore, 1988;Tubman, Vicary, von Eye, & Lerner, 1990;Windle, 1988), and manifest AUDs (Zucker, Fitzgerald, & Moses, 1995). Thus, a central question of research into the etiology of alcoholism concerns factors that distinguish young adults who moderate their alcohol consumption from those who persist in heavy drinking. Yet, until recently, relatively little research has addressed variability in typical courses of alcohol involvement during this rapidly changing period of life of early young adulthood (recently termed "emerging adulthood"; Arnett, 2000). In the present study, we addressed three central research questions: (a) whether there exist prototypical courses of Copyright 2005 by the American Psychological AssociationCorrespondence concerning this article should be addressed to Kristina M. Jackson, who is now at the Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies, Brown University, Box G-BH, Providence, RI 02912. kristina_jackson@brown.edu. NIH Public Access Author ManuscriptPsychol Addict Behav. Author manuscript; available in PMC 2010 July 7. ...

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“…Heavy alcohol use and problem drinking in young people is associated with short-term consequences such as alcohol related violence, drunk driving, injuries, risky sexual behavior and school problems [14,17,36], and is predictive of problematic alcohol use in adulthood [19,22]. These negative consequences call for extensive study of the predictors of adolescent and young adult heavy drinking and problem drinking.…”

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Predictors of problem drinking in adolescence and young adulthood

Poelen

Engels

Scholte

et al. 2009

Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry

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Clinical relevance of heavy drinking during the college years: Cross-sectional and prospective perspectives.

Cited by 128 publications

References 34 publications

A New Measure of Binge Drinking: Prevalence and Correlates in a Probability Sample of Undergraduates

A New Measure of Binge Drinking: Prevalence and Correlates in a Probability Sample of Undergraduates

Similarities and Differences of Longitudinal Phenotypes Across Alternate Indices of Alcohol Involvement: A Methodologic Comparison of Trajectory Approaches.

Predictors of problem drinking in adolescence and young adulthood

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