It's all fun and games...or is it? Collegiate sporting events and celebratory drinking.

Neal, Derrick J.; Sugarman, Dawn E.; Hustad, John; Caska, Catherine M.; Carey, Kate B.

doi:10.15288/jsa.2005.66.291

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“…In this respect, these data are similar to Neal, et al, (2005) in that both studies collected data during a National Championship season. Whether drinking rates would remain high during a more normative season remains an empirical question; however, it is interesting to note that drinking levels during the one loss across the two-year span was not among the top-10 heaviest drinking occasions for that year.…”

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confidence: 78%

Section: Rates Of Alcohol Consumption On Game Daysmentioning

confidence: 81%

“…Drinking levels were quite high for important regular-season games against national and conference rivals, but were quite low for important games against the local Texas rival (played during Thanksgiving break) and both Rose Bowl games (played during the semester break). Thus, the results suggest that the effects of collegiate sporting events are not associated exclusively with the importance of the game (e.g., Neal, et al, 2005) but with the importance of the game as well as the immediate context (i.e., home or away game; in or out of semester session).Alternative explanations for the lower levels of drinking on these games include the possibility that the 2005 Rose Bowl, which was the day following the heaviest drinking day of the participants' Freshman year (i.e., New Year's Eve), would have had higher levels of consumption had it not followed this well-known drinking day. The lower levels of drinking observed for the 2006 Rose Bowl (wherein UT won the National Championship), however, provide a degree of evidence against this explanation.…”

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“…Large increases in alcohol consumption were observed on the days of the semi-finals and finals of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Final Four basketball tournament (Neal, Sugarman, Hustad, Caska, & Carey, 2005). Over 60% of the sample reported alcohol consumption on each game day, and among those who drank, average consumption on the Saturday semi-final game was 8.2 (SD = 5.5) drinks and average consumption on the Monday final game was 6.9 (SD = 4.8) drinks.…”

Section: Collegiate Sports and Alcohol Consumptionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Hook 'em horns and heavy drinking: Alcohol use and collegiate sports

Neal

Fromme

2007

Addictive Behaviors

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Heavy alcohol consumption has been associated with collegiate sporting events, but little is known about specific levels of consumption over the course of an entire sports season. Ongoing web-based daily-monitoring at the University of Texas at Austin allowed assessment of drinking levels of students (n = 541) over two full football seasons. High-profile football game days were among the heaviest days for alcohol consumption, comparable to consumption on other well-known drinking days such as New Years Eve and Halloween weekend. Men increased their drinking for all games, and women with greater social involvement were more likely to drink heavily during away games. Among lighter drinkers, away games were associated with a greater likelihood of behavioral risks as intoxication increased.Emerging adult college students are among the heaviest drinking demographic groups in the United States. Those who attend college consume considerably more alcohol than their noncollege peers (Johnston, O'Malley, Bachman, & Schulenberg, 2005), and they experience high rates of negative consequences associated with excessive alcohol use (Wechsler, et al., 2002). Although examination of typical and peak consumption patterns can shed light on general patterns of college drinking, traditional assessments of alcohol consumption such as Quantity/Frequency indices (e.g., the Daily Drinking Questionnaire; Collins, Parks, & Marlatt, 1985) have significant limitations (e.g., . Such assessments require students to rely on heuristically-based estimates of "typical" consumption patterns, and are therefore unlikely to capture drinking episodes that are outside of individuals' normative consumption patterns.Recent evidence suggests that collegiate drinking, and heavy drinking in particular, is often associated with specific social or recreational events within the college environment. Although these events may represent college students' heaviest drinking occasions, they are likely to be excluded by traditional quantity/frequency assessments of alcohol use. Thus, the identification of events that promote heavy drinking, the degree to which alcohol use increases in conjunction with these events, and factors that influence drinking during these events, has become a recent focus of empirical research. For example, although it has widely been considered a period of sustained heavy drinking for many students, only recently has drinking on Spring Break been empirically documented as a specific heavy drinking context (Lee, Maggs, & Rankin, 2006;Smeaton, Josiam, & Dietrich, 1998). Likewise, Halloween (Miller, Jasper, & Hill, 1993) hasPublisher's Disclaimer: This is a PDF file of an unedited manuscript that has been accepted for publication. As a service to our customers we are providing this early version of the manuscript. The manuscript will undergo copyediting, typesetting, and review of the resulting proof before it is published in its final citable form. Please note that during the production process errorsmaybe discovered which could affe...

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Section: Limitationssupporting

confidence: 78%

Section: Rates Of Alcohol Consumption On Game Daysmentioning

confidence: 81%

mentioning

confidence: 86%

Section: Collegiate Sports and Alcohol Consumptionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Hook 'em horns and heavy drinking: Alcohol use and collegiate sports

Neal

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2007

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“…According to Nelson et al (2010), availability can include alcohol sold within the stadium but also accessed with tailgate parties or fans bringing their own. With alcohol being highly common at sporting events, fans tend to consume drinks at extremely high levels (Glassman et al, 2007(Glassman et al, , 2010Neal and Fromme, 2007;Neal et al, 2005;Neighbors et al, 2006b). Neal and Fromme (2007) found that football games considered to be high profi le were often the heaviest drinking occasions, even when compared with celebrating alcohol-centered holidays like New Year's Eve or Halloween.…”

Section: Drinking Contextsmentioning

confidence: 99%

They Drink How Much and Where? Normative Perceptions by Drinking Contexts and Their Association to College Students'Alcohol Consumption

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J. Stud. Alcohol Drugs

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ABSTRACT. Objective: Prior research has shown that normative perceptions of others' drinking behavior strongly relates to one's own drinking behavior. Most research examining the perceived drinking of others has generally focused on specifi city of the normative referent (i.e., gender, ethnicity). The present study expands the research literature on social norms by examining normative perceptions by various drinking contexts. Specifi cally, this research aimed to determine if college students overestimate peer drinking by several drinking contexts (i.e., bar, fraternity/sorority party, non-fraternity/sorority party, sporting event) and to examine whether normative perceptions for drinking by contexts relate to one's own drinking behavior specifi c to these contexts. Method: Students (N = 1,468; 56.4% female) participated in a web-based survey by completing measures assessing drinking behavior and perceived descriptive drinking norms for various contexts. Results: Findings demonstrated that students consistently overestimated the drinking behavior for the typical same-sex student in various drinking contexts, with the most prominent being fraternity/sorority parties. In addition, results indicated that same-sex normative perceptions for drinking by contexts were associated with personal drinking behavior within these contexts. Conclusions: Results stress the importance of specifi city of social norms beyond those related to the normative referent. Clinical implications are discussed in terms of preventions and intervention efforts as well as risks associated with drinking in a novel context. (J. Stud. Alcohol Drugs, 72,

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