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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Psychol Addict Behav. 2014 Sep 1;28(4):960–968. doi: 10.1037/a0037782

Table 1.

Means (and standard deviations) for alcohol use and social group norms by ethnicity

Ethnicity
Caucasian Asian Hispanic
Variable (n=1,014) (n=365) (n=286)
Total Drinks per week
 Senior 7.88 (9.66) 3.85 (6.28) 7.01 (9.23)
 One year post grad 6.75 (8.22) 3.39 (5.73) 5.30 (6.88)
 Two years post grad 6.56 (7.54) 2.71 (4.51) 5.11 (6.44)
Binge Drinking (past 3 months)
 Senior 5.30 (8.38) 2.16 (4.75) 4.00 (6.43)
 One year post grad 4.31 (7.11) 2.29 (5.10) 3.41 (6.61)
 Two years post grad 4.17 (7.24) 1.44 (3.52) 3.23 (6.22)
Drinking to Intoxication (past 3 months)
 Senior 4.72 (7.78) 1.41 (3.56) 2.91 (4.51)
 One year post grad 3.72 (6.35) 1.69 (4.22) 2.15 (4.30)
 Two years post grad 3.76 (7.07) 1.36 (3.11) 2.42 (4.76)
Social-group descriptive norms
 Senior 12.38 (10.21) 7.71 (9.30) 10.69 (11.02)
 One year post grad 10.92 (9.58) 7.11 (8.60) 9.07 (8.22)
 Two years post grad 10.71 (9.02) 6.46 (7.39) 9.01 (9.15)