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Results showed that Caucasians reported significantly higher confidence, higher sexual interest, and higher tension reduction expectancies than Asians. Conversely, Asians significantly expected cognitive enhancement and negative consequences more than Caucasians. Relative to Caucasians, the Asian sample also reported that they would be more able to refuse alcohol when under social pressure. Results from regression analyses showed that for the Caucasian sample, AE, DRSE and their interactions were significant predictors of alcohol consumption. For the Asian group, the only significant effect to emerge was that DRSE was negatively related to alcohol consumption.

The article contains some useful information and links to other articles that contain good statistics about college drinking, especially alcoholism, and alcohol-related deaths on college campuses nation-wide

8 Preventing Alcohol Abuse in College Students: A Harm-Reduction Approach G. Alan Marlatt John S. Baer Mary Larimer University of Washington Excessive consumption of alcohol by young people is a challenging problem for society. According to the law, it is illegal for ...

College students tend to overestimate volumes, over-pour drinks, and under-report levels of consumption.

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Many students do not grasp an enormous health problem on our college campuses -- alcohol abuse.

An intervention method combining a counseling session with a commercially available online feedback profile can reduce risky drinking among college students.

In response to the increase in intensity of drinking and drug abuse on college campuses, The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University has issued the following prevention suggestions to colleges and universities to reduce student substance abuse.

The new college year was barely underway in 1998 when had several media reports of more deaths directly attributed to binge drinking.

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An examination of college students' ability to define standard drinks suggests that college students drink significantly more than they think they do.

Proximity and types of norms as well as types of college drinkers will need to be distinguished in the future design and evaluation of social norms interventions.

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Binge Drinking Widespread Among College Students