Blog Post #6

The main case I will use is probably the "Daily College Student Drinking Patterns Across the First Year of College." With this case, a study was done to measure the impact that drinking has on students and it was also measured the average drinking patterns of students according to their surrounding environment (school, friends, etc). I find it to be particularly useful because it focuses on the drinking patterns, relative to which day of the week it is. Participants were asked to complete a survey every week where they documented how much they drank each day of the week. In addition, it was also measured how likely students were to engage in other activities such as marijuana use, because of alcohol consumption. The positive and negative effects of alcohol use was then measured in hopes of understanding why students have an interest in drinking. Overall, from this case, I saw that the surrounding environment certainly has an effect on the stress levels of college students. You could see an increased consumption of alcohol particularly on the weekends, which further supported my assumption that students depend on the weekends as a stress reliever. We see though that with alcohol use that students do not do as well with their academics. I hope to be able to use this information to better understand why drinking has a negative impact on students.

 

 

Hoeppner, Bettina B.; Barnett, Nancy E; Jackson, Kristina M.; Colby, Suzanne M.; Kahler, Christopher W.; Monti, Peter M.; Read, Jennifer; Tevyaw, Tracy; Wood, Mark; Corriveau, Donald; Fingeret, Allan. "Daily College Student Drinking Patterns Across The First Year Of College." Journal Of Studies On Alcohol & Drugs 73.4 (n.d.): 613. EBSCO: OmniFile Full Text Mega (H.W. Wilson) (EBSCO EIT) (XML). Web. 20 Oct. 2012.