CH. 21 - SUDs in College Students

Question 1

What are drinking patterns of college students compared to those not entering college?

Answer 1

students in college are more likely to participate in drinking alcohol than those not entering college.

Question 2

What is the relationship between alcohol use and sororities and fraternities?

Answer 2

• Sororities and Fraternities encourage binge drinking with all the events and party’s.
• 80% of sorority members who live in a sorority house binge drink, a figure that is approximately twice that for women who are not sorority members

Question 3

What is “group insulation” related to alcohol use?

Answer 3

“group insulation” is when a student feels protected against all but the most severe repercussions of their alcohol use. This process tends to isolate college students from external influence on their behavior, especially alcohol use, with external norms being ignored and classified as irrelevant.

Question 4

What percentage of college students believe that the use of “energy drinks” can mitigate the effects of alcohol? thus allowing them to drive

Answer 4

25% (1/4)

Question 5

Do students accurately evaluate the negative consequences of drinking in their peers?

Answer 5

• College students tend to overestimate their peers’ acceptance of drunken behavior, and overestimate the number of their peers who engage in heavy alcohol use.
• They also overestimate the frequency with which their peers suffer negative consequences from drinking and come to think that negative consequences are not a sign of unhealthy alcohol use, but the norm for drinking behavior.

Question 6

What is the relationship between student alcohol use and academic performance?

Answer 6

Alcohol use during college years, (brain is still growing and vulnerable to risk) can have damaging effects to the hipocampus of the brain and can effect academic performance