Alcohol Use and Sex in College: Developmental Change

大学中的饮酒和性行为：发展变化

• 批准号: 7147653
• 负责人: JENNIFER L MAGGS
• 金额: $ 30.33万
• 依托单位: PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY, THE
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-08-01 至 2011-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7147653
• 关键词: African American; Asian Americans; Hispanic Americans; Internet; alcoholic beverage consumption; behavior prediction; behavioral /social science research tag; caucasian American; clinical research; gender difference; growth /development; health surveys; high risk behavior /lifestyle; human subject; interpersonal relations; longitudinal human study; motivation; personal log /diary; racial /ethnic difference; sex behavior; social adjustment; socioenvironment; statistics /biometry; substance abuse related behavior; university student

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Alcohol use is often assumed to increase sexual risk taking, but empirical evidence for event-level associations is inconsistent. The CHOICES study will examine the co-variation of alcohol use and sexual behavior as they change developmental^ across college and contextually across relationships and situations. Based on a developmental contextual perspective, CHOICES will utilize a longitudinal plus event- based diary design combining longitudinal data across 7 semesters (31/2 years) of college and event-level data across 5 weeks each semester. A multi-ethnic sample of 612 African American, Asian American, European American, and Latino American emerging adult college students will complete a series of web- based surveys. Specific aims are to: (1) Track developmental trajectories of alcohol use, sexual behavior, and their co-variation across college; (2) Model event-level associations between alcohol use and sexual behavior; and (3) Identify person-level (e.g., gender, ethnicity), developmentally-changing (e.g., religiosity, drinking motivations), and contextually-fluctuating (e.g., partner characteristics) predictors of alcohol use, sexual behavior, and their associations. In addition to alcohol use and sexual behaviors, outcomes will include short-term consequences, health events, and academic performance. Analyses will address for whom alcohol use predicts sexual risk taking, under what circumstances, and how this association changes developmentally across the college years. Self-reports from the longitudinal and event-level web surveys will be supplemented by investigator-coded local and campus events and by academic record data through senior year. Open-ended perceptions of change in behavior will be coded to complement the quantitative ... data/Analyses will test predictions from alcohol expectancy models, alcohol myopia theory, and a routine activities perspective on situational deviance using latent growth curve modeling and multi-level models. Alcohol use and sexual behavior are primary causes of morbidity and mortality for adolescents and emerging adults. Pathways taken and lifestyles established during this pivotal period may impact health throughout " adulthood. Little longitudinal research has intensively tracked the alcohol use and sexual behaviors of multi- ethnic samples of emerging adults. The CHOICES study will provide new information about the developmental and situational co-variation of alcohol use and sexual behavior, and the extent to which these links vary by person-level, developmentally-changing, and environmental variables. This examination of whether alcohol use predicts sexual risk taking within an ethnically-diverse sample of college students will inform prevention and policy development by identifying characteristics of students and of situations most at risk for hazardous behaviors.

描述（由申请人提供）：人们通常认为饮酒会增加性风险，但事件层面关联的经验证据并不一致。 CHOICES 研究将研究酒精使用和性行为的共同变化，因为它们在整个大学以及跨关系和情境的背景下改变发展^。基于发展情境视角，CHOICES 将采用纵向加基于事件的日记设计，结合大学 7 个学期（31/2 年）的纵向数据和每学期 5 周的事件级数据。 612 名非裔美国人、亚裔美国人、欧洲裔美国人和拉丁美洲新兴成人大学生的多种族样本将完成一系列基于网络的调查。具体目标是：（1）跟踪酒精使用、性行为的发展轨迹及其在整个大学中的共同变化； (2) 模拟饮酒与性行为之间的事件级关联； (3) 确定个人层面（例如性别、种族）、发展变化（例如宗教信仰、饮酒动机）和情境波动（例如伴侣特征）的饮酒、性行为及其关联的预测因素。除了饮酒和性行为之外，结果还包括短期后果、健康事件和学业表现。分析将探讨哪些人饮酒会导致性风险、在什么情况下发生性行为，以及这种关联在大学期间如何发展变化。纵向和事件级网络调查的自我报告将由研究者编码的当地和校园事件以及直至高年级的学术记录数据进行补充。对行为变化的开放式感知将被编码，以补充定量……数据/分析将测试酒精预期模型、酒精近视理论和使用潜在增长曲线模型和多层次模型对情境偏差的常规活动观点的预测。饮酒和性行为是青少年和新兴成年人发病和死亡的主要原因。在这一关键时期采取的途径和建立的生活方式可能会影响整个成年期的健康。很少有纵向研究深入追踪了多种族新兴成年人样本的饮酒和性行为。CHOICES研究将提供有关饮酒和性行为的发展和情境共同变化的新信息，以及这些联系因个人水平、发展变化和环境变量而变化的程度。 对不同种族的大学生样本中饮酒是否预示性风险的研究将通过确定学生的特征和最有危险行为风险的情况来为预防和政策制定提供信息。