Specification of the association between sociability and drinking level among college students.

A substantial literature on the association between sociability and drinking level exists, but it has produced inconsistent and unremarkable results. The purpose of this study was to provide evidence for the multidimensionality of sociability and to test the hypothesis that the various dimensions are differentially related to drinking level. Measures of six dimensions of sociability were derived from the items of existing measures of sociability and were correlated with the drinking levels of college students, both male and female. Although some weak associations were found, none of the six dimensions of sociability examined had better explanatory power than more traditional measures of sociability.