Personality Differences in Drinking Contexts, Consequences, and Alcohol Reporting Accuracy: The Role of Extraversion and Neuroticism

Abstract

Alcohol use is commonplace on university campuses, with 79.2% of students consuming alcohol each year in Canada. Extraversion, a personality trait consisting of high sociability, is a strong predictor of alcohol use and problems in university students.Neuroticism, a personality trait comprising emotional instability, is associated with alcohol problems but not heavy alcohol use. Study 1 investigated whether students higher First saying thank you to all the friends and family who supported me through this whole degree. Loads of people for believing in me, listening to me, being interested in my all of my stats rants, it helps. Special thanks to Nina for always giving a shoulder to complain to, listening to me vent, letting me bounce ideas off of you even if you didn't understand what I was talking about, forcing me to take care of myself, all the silent work sessions and actually giving me time-management advice to finish this on time.