Black college students' drinking patterns

The roles of family religious affiliation and parental guidance during the first drinking experience

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2155201
AutoresCelia C Lo (0000-0002-5785-6622, Central Michigan University), Gerald Globetti (University of North Alabama)
Año1993
Volumen13
Número3
Páginas343-363
Fecha de publicación1993-07-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaSociological Spectrum (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0273-2173 • E-ISSN: 1521-0707
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/02732173.1993.9982035
OpenAlexW2132814741
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas4
Referencias citadas35

An alcohol‐use study of a sample of 160 college students was conducted at a predominantly black university in the Deep South in 1991. A model of personal control development was empirically tested. The results confirmed that students who take their first drink at a lower age are more likely to drink at a high level and to experience a high number of alcohol‐related problems in college. However, the negative relationship between age at the time of the first drink and college drinking patterns is attenuated if these young‐onset drinkers start their drinking in the presence of adults and/or with the knowledge of their parents. Along with normative guidance, family religious affiliation plays an important role in constraining problem drinking during the college years. Family religious affiliation and parental normative guidance during the first drinking experience serve as social control variables, providing individuals with access to normative standards and definitions of drinking within a particular sociocultural context. These variables are internalized by the time students reach college and become part of a personal control system, influencing behavior later in life

Developmental psychology · Normative · Social environment · Sociocultural evolution · Sociology · Alcohol Consumption and Health Effects · Psychology · Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology · Social Psychology · Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes