Table 1.
Descriptive statistics.
| Variable | Total |
Men |
Women |
Whites |
Blacks |
Hispanics |
Asians |
F-test |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sample |
(27%) |
(73%) |
(64%) |
(8%) |
(14%) |
(14%) |
(Partial eta2) | |
| (N = 7409) | (n = 2005) | (n = 5404) | (n = 4741) | (n = 595) | (n = 1065) | (n = 1008) | ||
| Age | 19.78 (1.61) |
19.82a (1.69) |
19.76a (1.58) |
19.79xz (1.59) |
19.92yz (1.66) |
19.72y (1.71) |
19.69y (1.57) |
2.15 (.000)1 2.88** (.001 )2 |
| Frequency of DG participation | 1.57 (1.68) |
1.82 (1.78) |
1.48 (1.64) |
1.87 (1.72) |
.78 (1.25) |
1.16x (1.55) |
1.07x (1.47) |
56.86***(.01)1 150.04***(.06)2 |
| Typical alcohol consumption3 | 2.68 (2.69) |
3.36 (3.04) |
2.42 (2.51) |
3.19 (2.77) |
1.29 (1.88) |
2.04 (2.36) |
1.71 (2.33) |
181.41*** (.02)1 186.87*** (.07)2 |
| Frequency | .82 (.89) |
.91 (.96) |
.78 (.86) |
.99 (.91) |
.40x (.65) |
.59 (.79) |
.49x (.76) |
33.24*** (.01)1 183.05*** (.07)2 |
| Binge drinking | 1.05 (1.12) |
1.32 (1.19) |
.95 (1.07) |
1.25 (1.14) |
.52 (.85) |
.80x (1.00) |
.72x (1.02) |
162.97*** (.02)1 147.82*** (.06)2 |
| Quantity | .84 (1.06) |
1.16 (1.31) |
.72 (.94) |
1.00 (1.12) |
.39x (.77) |
.69 (.95) |
.52x (.90) |
256.66*** (.03)1 108.81*** (.04)2 |
| Alcohol-related problems | 2.96 (4.13) |
3.61 (4.79) |
2.72 (3.82) |
3.27 (4.14) |
2.18x (3.99) |
2.59x (4.02) |
2.35x (4.11) |
67.50***(.01)1 26.39***(.01)2 |
| Audit total scores4 | 5.61 (6.05) |
6.93 (6.80) |
5.12 (5.68) |
6.44 (6.12) |
3.44x (5.26) |
4.60y (5.62) |
4.04xy (5.83) |
134.53***(.02)1 90.60***(.04)2 |
Notes. Drinking games (DG). Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT). Values on the first rows are means per group. Values on the second rows enclosed in parentheses are standard deviations per group. Bonferroni pairwise analyses were conducted. Each subscript letter denotes a subset of gender (a) and ethnicity (x,y, andz) whose means do not differ significantly from each other at the .05 level.
Gender comparisons.
Ethnic group comparisons.
A score of 4 or 5 on the AUDIT consumption subscale (i.e., AUDIT-C; the present study’s index of typical alcohol consumption) has been found to be useful in detecting “alcohol-related problems” among college students (Dawson, Grant, Stinson, & Zhou, 2005).
An AUDIT total score (AUDIT typical alcohol consumption + AUDIT alcohol-related problems) of 6 or greater has been shown to be effective in detecting high-risk drinking among college students (Kokotailo et al, 2004).
p < .05.
p < .01
p < .001.