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Article #137: Alcohol Abuse

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Such young adults engage in so called that self regulation programs had already
"high risk" or binge drinking, and are in been effective in high risk populations
danger of allowing their alcohol use to of college campuses, and were now
jeopardize not only their scholastic studying whether such a program would be
careers, but also their health. A series effective for an entire college.
of studies have been done in order to Wilke attempted to determine first
predict not only who is at the highest whether a variety of individual factors,
risk, but also the motivation behind such interpersonal relationships, and
self destructive behaviors, in hopes to contextual factors affected high risk
better educate students as to how to stay drinking, and secondly, could these
safe. Past research stated that alcohol factors be used to determine the
use has been prevalent amongst those with differences in gender's and their
anxiety and depression disorders, and propensity for high risk drinking. It was
especially amongst college students. The found that individual factors and
belief amongst the authors was that contextual factors played a large part in
perhaps the risky behavior of college both genders tendency to participate in
athletes is linked to depression. high risk drinking. The difference was
The alcohol prevention programs would found to be that interpersonal factors
focus on educating potential users as to specifically sexual relationships are
the ills of alcohol abuse, with the hopes effective predictors of female drinking,
that the student would then begin a but not male.
personal program of self regulation. Self The authors believe that this link may
regulation is a process by which one will not be primarily just one related to
first evaluate and recognize their alcohol, but that increased sexual
behavior, then determine if this behavior behavior with multiple partners and binge
is in keeping with their self image and drinking are both indicators of risky
goals, and if not, take appropriate behavior by women, and will thus be
action to make it so. The authors noted engaged in by women.






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