Alcohol Intoxication, Gender and Young Adults: A Qualitative Study

描述(由申请人提供)：这项拟议的为期36个月的定性项目将研究性别与青年成年男女(18-25岁)酒精中毒的含义和背景之间的联系。年轻人酗酒和酗酒是一个主要的公共卫生问题。虽然大量的酒精研究都集中在大学生身上，但我们也会调查不在大学的年轻人，这是一个在这个领域普遍研究不足的群体。传统上，醉酒被认为主要是男性的问题，但年轻女性中的酗酒和醉酒也成为一个严重的问题。虽然有重要的研究追踪这个年龄段酒精使用流行率的性别差异，但关键问题仍然是关于醉酒对年轻男性和女性的潜在不同的含义、环境、做法和后果。我们将集中于以下研究问题：1)酒精中毒对年轻成年女性和男性的意义是什么？2)年轻成年女性和男性醉酒的背景是什么(即，醉酒的社会实践、环境和后果)？以及3)年轻成年女性和男性的醉酒意义和经历是如何被他们的性别认同和对男性和女性气质的信念所塑造的？定性方法非常适合于探索关于意义、背景和社会实践的问题。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，他们有各种饮酒经历。深入的定性访谈将包括收集社会人口和饮酒数据的结构化问卷，以及提供详细叙述信息的开放式、半结构化时间表，其中将包括生活史问题和照片 启发式和小插曲启发式练习。分析将包括适用于收集的各种类型数据的混合方法。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，以便在未来的大规模研究中进行检验，并可以为构建针对性别的酒精预防和干预努力提供必要的信息。

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.