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This 10 page paper reviews four peer reviewed studies on College students and alcohol abuse. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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these students will become alcoholics. However, what seems to be the underlying determinant to developing alcoholism is ones risk factor, which include both biological and psychosocial components. The following reviews
of articles examine these factors. FAMILY HISTORY AND ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION PATTERNS OF COLLEGE STUDENTS IN AT A RURAL SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY Education Magazine, Fall 1998, pg. 142
While family history plays a large part in determining ones likelihood to overindulge to the point of developing alcoholism, this study shows that several other factors combine to make this
tendency a lethal factor. One of those catalysts is the geographical region in which a University was located. According to Lo and Globetti(1993) students who live in the South tend
to drink less than those in the North. The reason, they state is that the South is still pervasively conservative in their perspective toward alcohol consumption and also reflects the
influence of religious education that teaches total abstinence. In addition, this article states that the joining of a social organization such as a sorority or fraternity is also a
catalyst toward alcoholism. Wechsler(Wechsler 1996) states that alcohol is used as a sort of rite of passage for members of these groups. As such, if the student who joins a
fraternity or sorority is already biologically or psychosocially geared toward alcohol abuse, then this simply strikes a match to ticking time bomb. One out of three students report having
a family member with an alcohol problem, which makes the use of alcohol by social organizations particularly insidious. This means that nearly one in three students have been exposed to
drinking patterns through family models and may go to extremes to be accepted by this new family. The use of alcohol in the family was not necessarily shown to be
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