Alcohol Intoxication, Gender and Young Adults: A Qualitative Study

描述（由申请人提供）：这个拟议的36个月的定性项目将研究性别之间的联系和酒精中毒的意义和背景的年轻成年男子和妇女（18-25岁）。年轻人酗酒和中毒是一个重大的公共卫生问题。虽然大量的酒精研究集中在大学生身上，但我们也将研究不在大学里的年轻人，这是一个在这一领域普遍研究不足的群体。传统上，酗酒被认为主要是男性的问题，但酗酒和酗酒在年轻妇女中也已成为一个重要问题。虽然有重要的研究追踪这一年龄组酒精使用流行率的性别差异，但关键问题仍然是关于年轻男女醉酒的潜在不同含义，设置，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)中毒的背景是什么（即，社会习俗、环境和醉酒的后果）对年轻成年男女的影响？以及3）年轻成年女性和男性的性别身份和对男性气质和女性气质的信念以何种方式塑造了他们的醉酒意义和体验？ 定性方法非常适合探索有关意义、语境和社会实践的问题。我们将采访200名年轻的成年女性（n=100）和男性（n=100），年龄在18-25岁之间，拥有一系列饮酒经验。深入的定性访谈将包括一个结构化的问卷调查，以收集社会人口和酒精使用数据和一个开放式的，半结构化的时间表，以提供详细的叙述信息，其中将包括生活史问题和照片 启发和小插曲启发练习。分析将包括适用于所收集的各类数据的混合方法。 该项目产生的定性分析可以产生关于性别和中毒的理论和假设，以在未来的大规模研究中进行测试，并可以为构建针对性别的酒精预防和干预工作提供必要的信息。

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.