Pre-College Pregaming: Practices, Risk Factors, and Relationship to Other Indices of Problematic Drinking During the Transition From High School to College
Pre-College Pregaming: Practices, Risk Factors, and Relationship to Other Indices of Problematic Drinking During the Transition From High School to College
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DOI：
10.1037/a0029765
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发表时间：
2012-12-01
影响因子：
3.4
通讯作者：
Jacob, Theodore
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作者：
Haas, Amie L.;Smith, Shelby K.;Jacob, Theodore
This study examined alcohol use and pregaming (i.e., drinking before going out) in the transition from high school to college and had 3 objectives: (1) evaluating pregaming prevalence and characteristics during this time, (2) determining whether it represents a unique risk for problematic drinking above-and-beyond traditional measures of consumption (i.e., quantity/frequency: QFI, and heavy episodic drinking: HED), and (3) identifying characteristics of individuals who pregame. Alcohol use and beliefs (i.e., self-reported quantity/frequency, pregaming practices, drinking game participation, alcohol-related problems, and expectancies) were assessed in entering freshmen (N = 1171) with prior alcohol use for the 3 months between high school and starting college. Results revealed that 65% of drinkers pregamed in the past, and most did so on fewer than 50% of their overall drinking occasions, consuming an average of 3 drinks in 27 min and most (87%) drank afterward. Hierarchical regression analyses indicated that pregaming frequency explained an additional 7.0% of variance in problematic alcohol use above-and-beyond overall drinking and demographic risk factors (e.g., gender, ethnicity, and Greek affiliation: R-2 = .43 for overall model). Separate analyses indicated that demographics did not moderate the relationship between pregaming and problems. Regression analyses predicting pregaming frequency identified 7 characteristics associated with this outcome including demographics (gender, ethnicity, Greek affiliation), heavy drinking, drinking game frequency, and 2 scales of the Alcohol Expectancy Inventory (AEI: Attractive and Woozy). Findings implicate pregaming as a common practice during the transition to college, and highlight the need for additional studies examining pregaming changes across the freshman year.
