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This digital document is an article from Journal of Studies on Alcohol, published by Alcohol Research Documentation, Inc. on September 1, 2003. The length of the article is 6736 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the author: Objective: This study examines relationships between alcohol-related aggression and drinking at off-campus parties and bars. Other background variables include gender, year in school, residence and heavy drinking in college. Method: The study participants were respondents in the 1997 and 1999 Harvard School of Public Health College Alcohol Study, national surveys of students attending 119 4-year U.S. colleges. Based on responses from 8,426 students, 18-24 years of age, who were never married and who reported attendance at off-campus parties and bars in the past month, an exploratory factor analysis of the alcohol problem items was specified in a confirmatory factor analysis framework based on a two-factor solution (disruptive behavior and victims of altercations). In addition, the two factors were related to study variables. Results: Among students attending both off-campus parties and bars, level of drinking was related to higher levels of Factor 1 (disruptive behaviors) at off-campus parties and bars. Level of drinking was related to higher levels of Factor 2 (victims of altercations) at off-campus bars but not off-campus parties. Factor 1 was higher among men, freshmen and residents in coed dorms and lower among students living off-campus with parents. Factor 2 was higher among women, freshmen compared with seniors and residents of Greek houses and lower among students living off-campus residence with parents. Conclusions: Findings from this study highlight environmental factors in collegiate drinking practices and support targeted and diverse strategies for prevention activities.

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Title: Alcohol-related aggression and drinking at off-campus parties and bars: a national study of current drinkers in college *.
Author: Thomas C. Harford
Publication: Journal of Studies on Alcohol (Refereed)
Date: September 1, 2003
Publisher: Alcohol Research Documentation, Inc.
Volume: 64Issue: 5Page: 704(8)

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This digital document is an article from Journal of Studies on Alcohol, published by Alcohol Research Documentation, Inc. on September 1, 2003. The length of the article is 6944 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the author: Objective: Alcohol use in humans is associated with aggression and other socially inappropriate behaviors. These adverse effects have been attributed to an acute impairment of behavioral control, and research findings indicate that inhibitory aspects of behavioral control might be particularly vulnerable to the effects of alcohol. The present study tested the degree to which alcohol-induced impairment of behavioral control is due to a specific impairment of inhibitory mechanisms or due to a general information processing deficit. Method: Forty subjects (29 men) performed a cued reaction time task before and after receiving 0.65 g/kg alcohol or a placebo. Subjects performed the task under conditions that differed in the type of response needed to maintain behavioral control: response-suppression and response-alteration. Results: Alcohol impairment was observed when behavioral control was dependent on response-suppression, but no impairment was observed when control relied on response-alteration. Conclusions: The findings point to the susceptibility of inhibitory processes by showing that alcohol can be particularly detrimental to behavioral control in situations where prepotent responses must be completely suppressed. Evidence for alcohol-induced impairment of inhibitory functions could provide important clues about basic behavioral mechanisms by which alcohol disrupts such higher order cognitive processes as working memory, learning and decision making. (J. Stud. Alcohol 64: 687-695, 2003)

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Title: Alcohol-induced impairment of behavioral control: effects on the alteration and suppression of prepotent responses *.
Author: Ben D. Abroms
Publication: Journal of Studies on Alcohol (Refereed)
Date: September 1, 2003
Publisher: Alcohol Research Documentation, Inc.
Volume: 64Issue: 5Page: 687(9)

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