Collegiate alcohol involvement and role attainment in early adulthood: findings from a prospective high-risk study.

Wood, Mark D.; Sher, Kenneth J.; McGowan, Angela

doi:10.15288/jsa.2000.61.278

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“…The data provided some support for this hypothesis, but similar to past research, the magnitude of these associations, regardless of alcohol indicator, was found to be small after adjusting for academic aptitude, high school percentile rank, and Gender × Academic Aptitude interaction (aptitude scores from high school were less predictive of college academic performance in men compared with women) (Wood et al, 2000). The small effects of alcohol use were further diminished by adjusting for the effects of residence hall building, which has not been assessed in studies of this type in the past.…”

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“…Gender also had a signifi cant, direct relationship with academic problems. In a 6-year follow-up study of the same panel of students, Wood et al (2000) found that alcohol involvement had a modest, negative association with educational attainment after controlling for background variables. Thus, in contrast to the cross-sectional fi ndings reported in the general body of literature on the subject, Wood and colleagues concluded that the magnitude of the relation between alcohol involvement and academic attainment might be quite small.…”

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“…However, questions can be raised about the generalizability of the fi ndings from this study because it was conducted at a small, liberal arts campus in the northeastern United States with rather unique academic features and an elite student body. Although Wood et al (1997Wood et al ( , 2000 made a substantial contribution to the research on undergraduate drinking and academic performance, the methods and measures used in their studies and those conducted since that time also can be questioned. Therefore, it is premature to conclude either that there is no relationship between alcohol use and academic performance or that it is only a very modest one.…”

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“…Several measurement and design issues have not been adequately addressed in the previous prospective studies (i.e., Aertgeerts and Buntinx, 2002;Pascall and Freisthler, 2003;Singleton, 2007;Wood et al, 1997Wood et al, , 2000. First, there is a need to track fi rst-and second-year undergraduates at closer time intervals using multiple measures of consumption within the context of a semester, because signifi cant and abrupt changes occur frequently in the individual drinking trajectories of teenagers and young adults (Bennett et al, 1999;Jackson et al, 2001;Rutledge and Sher, 2001;Schulenberg et al, 1996).…”

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Undergraduate Drinking and Academic Performance: A Prospective Investigation With Objective Measures

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et al. 2009

J. Stud. Alcohol Drugs

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ABSTRACT. Objective: Findings from previous prospective research suggest the association between alcohol use and undergraduate academic performance is negligible. This study was designed to address weaknesses of the past research by relying on objective measures of both drinking and academic performance. Method: A prospective study was conducted with repeated measures of exposure to alcohol linked to institutional academic records. Alcohol data were collected in residence halls at a nonselective, midwestern, public university in the United States. A total of 659 fi rst-and second-year undergraduate students were tracked over the course of 15-week semesters. Results: A statistically signifi cant negative association with semester academic performance was found for different alcohol indicators: frequency of breath alcohol concentration (BrAC) above .08, mean BrAC, standard deviation, and maximum BrAC recorded. These associations remained statistically signifi cant when controlled for sociodemographic variables and individual level confounders, but the effect sizes were relatively small with a contribution to explained variance of less than 1%. When additionally adjusted for residence hall building, all alcohol indicators no longer reached statistical signifi cance (p ≥ .05). Conclusions: Consistent with past prospective research, the magnitude of the association between undergraduate alcohol use and academic performance is small when the effects of high school academic aptitude and performance are accounted for in multivariable analyses. This is the fi rst study to fi nd that living environment may have a robust effect on the academic achievement of undergraduates. Future research should examine more closely the relation between residence and academic performance and the role that alcohol use may play in creating residential environments. (J. Stud. Alcohol

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Undergraduate Drinking and Academic Performance: A Prospective Investigation With Objective Measures

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“…Annually, at least 1,400 deaths are attributable to alcohol use on college campuses (1). High-risk drinking among young adults is associated with sexual assault, destruction of property, academic problems, accidental injury, and several adverse health consequences (2)(3)(4)(5). Binge drinking and illicit drug use often co-occur (2,(6)(7)(8)(9)(10), but in contrast to longitudinal studies of alcohol consumption (11), surprisingly few longitudinal prospective studies have examined patterns, correlates, and consequences of illicit drug use among college students.…”

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Drug Exposure Opportunities and Use Patterns among College Students: Results of a Longitudinal Prospective Cohort Study

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Underage drinking and drug use among college students are major public health concerns, yet few studies have examined these behaviors and their associated risk factors and consequences prospectively. This paper describes the sampling and recruitment methods of a longitudinal study of 1,253 college students at a large, mid-Atlantic university. Incoming first-year students were screened during the unique window between high school and college in order to oversample drug users for longitudinal follow-up. Intensive recruitment strategies yielded a 95% cumulative response rate in annual interviews and semi-annual surveys. We report preliminary results on exposure opportunity, lifetime prevalence, initiation, continuation, and cessation of substance use for alcohol, tobacco, and ten illicit and prescription drugs during the first two years of college. Findings suggest that while some substance use represents a continuation of patterns initiated in high school, exposure opportunity and initiation of substance use frequently occur in college. Implications for prevention and early intervention are discussed. Keywords NIH-PA Author ManuscriptNIH-PA Author Manuscript NIH-PA Author Manuscript IntroductionUnderage drinking and illicit substance use among college students are major public health concerns. Annually, at least 1,400 deaths are attributable to alcohol use on college campuses (1). High-risk drinking among young adults is associated with sexual assault, destruction of property, academic problems, accidental injury, and several adverse health consequences (2-5). Binge drinking and illicit drug use often co-occur (2,6-10), but in contrast to longitudinal studies of alcohol consumption (11), surprisingly few longitudinal prospective studies have examined patterns, correlates, and consequences of illicit drug use among college students. Little information is available on the patterns of initiation and cessation during college-that is, it is not known how often drug use is initiated after coming to college versus continuing a pattern that began in high school, and how often a pattern of regular drug use resolves among college students. Moreover, a majority of the conceptual models used to explain the onset and course of early drug use were developed from studying samples of adolescents, many of whom were deviant and disadvantaged (12)(13)(14)(15)(16)(17). Although the application of these models to samples of educated, academically-achieving youths might be appropriate, other risk factors and consequences might be needed to fully describe the natural history and course of drug use and other health risk behaviors during this unique developmental window. For example, an important potential outcome of drug use among college students might be diminished expectations regarding career goals or difficulty establishing autonomy.This paper describes results from the College Life Study (CLS), funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse in October 2003 to address critical gaps in our knowledge base concerning the longi...

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Drinking among College Students

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Park

2005

Recent Developments in Alcoholism

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For most of the American population, the college years represent the period of life associated with the highest levels of alcohol consumption and, most likely, the highest prevalence of alcohol use disorders during the lifespan (Grant, 1997). Recent research has focused increasingly on college student drinking. For example, a combined PsycINFO/Medline search of abstracts containing the words "alcohol or drink or drinking" shows a dramatic increase in the percentage of scholarly articles that contain the term "college" over the past four decades; 0.

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Collegiate alcohol involvement and role attainment in early adulthood: findings from a prospective high-risk study.

Cited by 70 publications

References 25 publications

Undergraduate Drinking and Academic Performance: A Prospective Investigation With Objective Measures

Undergraduate Drinking and Academic Performance: A Prospective Investigation With Objective Measures

Drug Exposure Opportunities and Use Patterns among College Students: Results of a Longitudinal Prospective Cohort Study

Drinking among College Students

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