Literature Review Blog #2

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(2)  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: Academic Search Premier (EBSCO EIT) (XML). Web. 14 Oct. 2012.

(3) This sources discusses the drinking patterns of college students. A year-long sample was used to learn about the subpopulations of the student drinking patterns and from this, they were able to learn how the groups differed from each other during the first year of college, and even after. Online surveys were completed to discuss drinking behaviors and results showed that there was a pattern. Students would drink more or less depending on which day of the week it was and also if it was a holiday and also according to their academics. One could see what motivated students to drink and thus how to establish ways to instill prevention.

(4) There are several authors but I will mention one, Dr. Barnett

Brown University offers a biography stating that "Dr. Barnett is an Associate Professor (Research) in the Department of Behavioral and Social Sciences in the Program in Public Health. She completed her graduate training at the University of Washington and her predoctoral and postdoctoral training at Brown University. Her primary areas of interest are 1) developing and testing brief interventions for substance use among adolescents and young adults, 2) how change occurs following alcohol-related critical events, and 3) the use of internet-based and transdermal technologies for the assessment and treatment of alcohol use disorders. Her research has been funded by the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA). Her recent publications have focused on efficacy, mediators, and moderators of brief interventions for adolescents and young adults, efficacy of contingency management for reducing alcohol use, predictors of change following alcohol-related experiences, and characteristics of college students who have specific alcohol-related events. Dr. Barnett has served on numerous scientific review committees for the Center for Scientific Review and NIAAA, and is currently the Secretary of the Research Society on Alcoholism" (http://research.brown.edu/research/profile.php?id=1100925768)

(5) It is stressed that college student drinking is often reflective on factors such as family, school, and other things that can cause a student to become stressed. College students are also more likley to becom heavy drinkers than 12th graders or others who are not in college because of all the new stresses that students face. This study also essentially aims to understand drinking patterns and how they relate to risky behavior, academics, and cognitive consequences. By learning this, there is the hope of being able instill prevention.

(6) "College students often show risky drinking patterns and have higher rates of heavy-drinking occasions than either 12th graders or non-college attending peers" (Daily College Student Drinking Patterns Across the First Year of College, p. 613).

Freshman college students are much more at risk with becoming heavy drinkers because these studnts are in college for the first time and are thus adjusting to it for the first time. The pressure to drink can be very overwhelming and I'd like to tie this in with privatization and how students' fears/stresses about colleges makes them think irrationally.

"Results have indicated that college drinking follows a weekly pattern reflective of student role demands, but it is also influenced by family roles, external events, and fluctuations in academic pressures" (Daily College Student Drinking Patterns Across the First Year of College, p.614).

This shows that students drink in order to find relief from the stress they face in their everyday lives. College seems to make their stress all that more apparent and so students struggle to find a way to cope with it all. Not only that, they are worried about securing their future. Privatization seems to almost trick students into thinking that something is what they truly desire, or even need. Students are thinking irrationally when they hope that they will have a plan to pay of their debt, some time in the future. They don't want to think of the problem at the present moment so they put it off and drinking is a way that helps them do this successfully.

"The findings from this study showed that alcohol consumption was consistently different for three parts of the week, and that weekly drinking changed considerably as a function of academic requirements and holidays" (Daily College Student Drinking Patterns Across the First Year of Colege, p. 614).

Students drink according to what is going on in their life. Again, it is clear that they like to drink to cope with stress and it can be seen, particularly with freshman, that students aren't very rational with deciding how much they drink. As a result, we see them performing poorly with their academics. It is arguable that with all the money students are spending to attend college, students should be more careful with their academics. Students are deciding to look beyond this though and this is creating a big problem.

(7) This material will certainly be helpful to me because I hope to explain the drinking patterns of students. This source discusses students' reasons for drinking and how much students drink, according to which day of the week it is. This is also helpful for me to explain how to instill prevention because an argument I could make is that privatization doesn't seem to care how inmoral this is that students are drinking. Removing the ability to drink would not be favorable to privatization because it generally makes the university a bit less appealing to students. Studnets want to have the freedom to drink but I hope to explain why drinking is an irrational decision that they are making.