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Multilevel analysis of situational drinking among Canadian undergraduates

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  • Demers, Andrée
  • Kairouz, Sylvia
  • Adlaf, Edward
  • Gliksman, Louis
  • Newton-Taylor, Brenda
  • Marchand, Alain

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Using a multi-level approach, we examined the contribution of drinking setting characteristics and of individual characteristics on the alcohol intake per drinking occasion. The data are drawn from the Canadian Campus Survey, a national mail survey conducted in 1998 with a random sample of 8,864 students in 18 universities. For each student, up to five drinking occasions were investigated, resulting in 26, 348 drinking occasions among 6, 850 drinkers. At the individual level this study focused on the university life experience. At the situational level, information about alcohol intake was recorded relative to why, when, where and with whom drinking occurred. Our results show that drinking setting is as important as the individual characteristics in explaining the alcohol intake per occasion. Policies aimed at reducing students alcohol intake may be more beneficial if they address both situational and individual factors.

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  • Demers, Andrée & Kairouz, Sylvia & Adlaf, Edward & Gliksman, Louis & Newton-Taylor, Brenda & Marchand, Alain, 2002. "Multilevel analysis of situational drinking among Canadian undergraduates," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 55(3), pages 415-424, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:socmed:v:55:y:2002:i:3:p:415-424
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    1. Paswan, Audhesh K. & Gai, Lili & Jeon, Sua, 2015. "Alcohol and college students: Reasons, realization and intention to quit," Journal of Business Research, Elsevier, vol. 68(10), pages 2075-2083.
    2. Paradis, Catherine, 2011. "Parenthood, drinking locations and heavy drinking," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 72(8), pages 1258-1265, April.
    3. Jason C. Bond & Sarah C.M. Roberts & Thomas K. Greenfield & Rachael Korcha & Yu Ye & Madhabika B. Nayak, 2010. "Gender Differences in Public and Private Drinking Contexts: A Multi-Level GENACIS Analysis," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 7(5), pages 1-25, May.
    4. Pham Bich Diep & Frans E. S. Tan & Ronald A. Knibbe & Nanne De Vries, 2016. "A Multilevel Study of Students in Vietnam: Drinking Motives and Drinking Context as Predictors of Alcohol Consumption," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 13(7), pages 1-13, July.

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