DRINKING PATTERNS OF UNIVERSITY STUDENTS OVER A SEVEN YEAR TIME PERIOD: The Effect of Raising the Drinking Age

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1988-08

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The PURPOSE of this study was to examine drinking patterns and problems of a sample of college students from throughout the United States over three time periods to determine possible changes in patterns due to changes public policies. METHODS: Student were administered the Student Alcohol Questionnaire (SAQ) at the same 56 colleges that had participated in the study during 1982-3 (N=3145), 1984-5 (N=2797) and 1987-8 (N=3375). This highly reliable questionnaire (r=.79) contains 6 items on drinking patterns, 17 items concerning possible problems resulting from drinking, and 36 questions on alcohol and its effects. RESULTS: The results comparing behaviors and problems over the three time periods revealed a significant decline of students who had consumed alcohol (84% in 1983; 83% in 1985 and 79% in 1987). Percent of students reporting the three drinking and driving related problems and vomiting had significantly decreased while getting into a fight after drinking had significantly increased (p < .05). The other variables were stable. CONCLUSIONS: Although there were a few changes, these changes were already beginning to occur prior to any change in the drinking age laws on the national level.

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This record contains an expanded and a condensed version of the paper. Other research papers on student drinking can be found at:: https://scholarworks.iu.edu/dspace/handle/2022/17130/browse?type=dateissued; https://scholarworks.iu.edu/dspace/handle/2022/17127/browse?type=dateissued and https://scholarworks.iu.edu/dspace/handle/2022/17124/browse?type=dateissued. Further information about the questionnaire, calculations used for the study, and the original data base can be found in the following item records within IUScholarworks repository. Details about the reliability and validity of the SAQ are found at: http://hdl.handle.net/2022/17154; http://hdl.handle.net/2022/17181. The classic SAQ is found at http://hdl.handle.net/2022/17153. ALL QUESTIONNAIRES developed by Engs are found in the repository at: https://scholarworks.iu.edu/dspace/handle/2022/17141/browse?type=dateissued

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Drinking age, underage drinking, college students, binge drinking, public policy, alcohol,

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Engs, R.C. & Hanson, D.J. (1988) DRINKING PATTERNS OF UNIVERSITY STUDENTS OVER A SEVEN YEAR TIME PERIOD: The Effect of Raising the Drinking Age. PAPER PRESENTED 35th International Congress on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence. Oslo, 31 July - 6 August, 1988. Retrieved from IUScholarworks: http://hdl.handle.net/2022/17296

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This work is licensed for reuse under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial license. For permission to reuse this work for commercial purposes, please contact Dr. Ruth Engs or the IU Archives.

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