Alcohol Intoxication, Gender and Young Adults: A Qualitative Study

描述（由申请人提供）：这个提议的为期36个月的定性项目将研究性别与年轻成年男性和女性（18-25岁）酒精中毒的含义和背景之间的联系。年轻人大量饮酒和中毒是一个主要的公共卫生问题。虽然大量的酒精研究集中在大学生身上，但我们也会研究没有上大学的年轻人，这是一个在这一领域普遍未被充分研究的群体。传统上，醉酒被认为主要是男性的问题，但年轻女性的酗酒和醉酒也已成为一个重大问题。虽然有重要的研究追踪了这一年龄组酒精使用流行率的性别差异，但关键问题仍然是年轻男性和女性中毒的潜在不同含义、环境、做法和后果。我们将重点研究以下问题：1)酒精中毒对年轻成年女性和男性的意义是什么？(2)对于年轻成年女性和男性来说，醉酒的环境（即社会实践、环境和醉酒的后果）是什么？3)年轻成年女性和男性对醉酒的意义和体验是如何被他们的性别认同和对男性气质和女性气质的信仰所塑造的？定性方法非常适合探索有关意义、背景和社会实践的问题。我们将采访200名年轻成年女性（n=100）和男性（n=100），年龄在18-25岁之间，他们都有一系列的饮酒经历。深入的定性访谈将包括一份结构化问卷，以收集社会人口统计和酒精使用数据，以及一份开放式的半结构化时间表，以提供详细的叙述信息，其中将包括生活史问题和照片

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This proposed 36-month qualitative project will examine the connections between gender and the meanings and contexts of alcohol intoxication for young adult men and women (age 18-25). Heavy drinking and intoxication among young adults is a major public health problem. Although a great deal of alcohol research has focused on college students, we will also examine young adults not in college, a generally understudied group in this field. Intoxication has traditionally been thought of as a primarily male issue, but heavy drinking and intoxication among young women has emerged as a significant problem as well. While there is important research tracing gender differences in alcohol use prevalence in this age group, key questions remain about potentially different meanings, settings, practices, and consequences of intoxication for young men and women. We will focus on the following research questions: 1) What is the meaning of alcohol intoxication for young adult women and men?, 2) What are the contexts of intoxication (i.e., social practices, settings, and consequences of intoxication) for young adult women and men?, and 3) In what ways are young adult women's and men's meanings and experiences of intoxication shaped by their gender identities and beliefs about masculinity and femininity? Qualitative methods are well-suited to explore questions about meaning, context, and social practices. We will interview 200 young adult women (n=100) and men (n=100), between the ages of 18-25 who possess a range of drinking experiences. In-depth qualitative interviews will include a structured questionnaire to gather socio-demographic and alcohol-use data and an open-ended, semi-structured schedule to provide detailed narrative information, which will include both life history questions and photo elicitation and vignette elicitation exercises. Analysis will consist of mixed methods appropriate to the various types of data collected. The qualitative analysis produced by this project can generate theory and hypotheses about gender and intoxication to test in future large-scale research and can provide essential information for the construction of gender-specific alcohol prevention and intervention efforts.