TY - JOUR
T1 - Drinking Behavior of High Risk College Men
T2 - Contradictory Preliminary Findings
AU - Alterman, Arthur I.
AU - Bridges, K. Robert
AU - Tarter, Ralph E.
PY - 1986/5
Y1 - 1986/5
N2 - Seventeen high risk and seventeen low risk college‐aged men were compared with respect to drinking behavior/problems and certain implicated personality characteristics. The low risk subjects were, surprisingly, found to drink and become intoxicated more frequently than high risk subjects. They also reported significantly higher sensation seeking scores. This latter variable accounted for the greatest amount of variance in both risk status and frequency of drinking. By contrast, high risk subjects reported somewhat more lifetime alcohol‐related symptomatology and significantly more preaduK antisocial symptoms. Preadult antisocial symptoms, alone, explained 39% and 29%, respectively, of the variance in alcohol‐related symptoms and the amount consumed on a typical drinking day. The implications and limitations of the findings with respect to the development of alcoholism are discussed.
AB - Seventeen high risk and seventeen low risk college‐aged men were compared with respect to drinking behavior/problems and certain implicated personality characteristics. The low risk subjects were, surprisingly, found to drink and become intoxicated more frequently than high risk subjects. They also reported significantly higher sensation seeking scores. This latter variable accounted for the greatest amount of variance in both risk status and frequency of drinking. By contrast, high risk subjects reported somewhat more lifetime alcohol‐related symptomatology and significantly more preaduK antisocial symptoms. Preadult antisocial symptoms, alone, explained 39% and 29%, respectively, of the variance in alcohol‐related symptoms and the amount consumed on a typical drinking day. The implications and limitations of the findings with respect to the development of alcoholism are discussed.
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U2 - 10.1111/j.1530-0277.1986.tb05095.x
DO - 10.1111/j.1530-0277.1986.tb05095.x
M3 - Article
C2 - 3526955
AN - SCOPUS:0022479899
SN - 0145-6008
VL - 10
SP - 305
EP - 310
JO - Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research
JF - Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research
IS - 3
ER -