Church Attendance and Alcohol Consumption Level: Reasons for not Drinking Alcohol among College Students
نویسنده
چکیده
This paper explores the relationship between church attendance (religiosity) and reasons for not drinking alcohol among undergraduate college student in historically black university. The data for this study was based on a selfadministered survey of 188 student volunteers from various classes from a 4-year historically black university in Southwest Georgia. The findings indicate that church attendance and the number of alcoholic beverages consumed are not independent but strongly related. Analysis of the data suggests that those who attend church regularly tend to drink fewer alcoholic beverages than those who attend church less regularly.
منابع مشابه
Reasons for drinking in the college student context: the differential role and risk of the social motivator.
OBJECTIVE The present study examines the relationships among reasons for drinking, alcohol consumption, and alcohol-related consequences in two college-aged samples. Personal motivators such as mood enhancement and coping (tension reduction) have consistently been shown to predict problematic alcohol use, but because of the salient nature of social drinking in college, we hypothesized that soci...
متن کاملDo college students drink more than their non-college-attending peers? Evidence from a population-based longitudinal female twin study.
The association of college attendance with alcohol use and alcohol use disorders was examined in a population-based young adult female twin sample identified from a systematic search of birth records. College-attending women consumed a larger overall volume of alcohol than did their non-college-attending peers, but they were not more likely to be diagnosed with an alcohol use disorder. Signific...
متن کاملSocial anxiety and drinking in college students: a social cognitive theory analysis.
Evidence is reviewed that indicates that social anxiety is a significant motivation for drinking among college students. Although the link between social anxiety and alcohol consumption has been studied from a variety of perspectives, there has been little integration of data. Drawing from the alcohol and anxiety literature, the relationship between social anxiety and heavy drinking in college ...
متن کاملExpectancies and evaluations of alcohol effects among college students: self-determination as a moderator.
OBJECTIVE This research examined individual differences in self-determination as moderators of both alcohol expectancies and of subjective evaluations of alcohol effects in college students. Previous work has shown lower levels of self-determination to be linked with drinking for more extrinsic reasons and as a means of regulating affect and social approval. We proposed that alcohol expectancie...
متن کاملReasons for Drinking
Objective: The present study examines the relationships among reasons for drinking, alcohol consumption, and alcohol-related consequences in two college-aged samples. Personal motivators such as mood enhancement and coping (tension reduction) have consistently been shown to predict problematic alcohol use, but because of the salient nature of social drinking in college, we hypothesized that soc...
متن کامل