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Incidence of Drinking
WHY DO FEMALES DRINK??????
Individual influences may influence why a womean would binge drink, these include: personality, behavior, life situation… and interpersonal and community influences, and societal and environmental influences – laws, marketing practices.
Studies go back to the year 1978 when Wilsnack and Wilsnack suggested that increased drinking among females might be a result of the womens' movement and changes in womens, roles, especially changes that involve exposure to formerly masculine environments and roles. They suggest that changes in sex roles might increase womens' exposure to alcohol and opportunities to drink; might modify traditional norms against female drinking, thereby making drinking more permissible; and might offer females new goals and aspirations, thus causing stress that alcohol might be used to reduce. Now that it is the year 2006 the hygenomy men have had on women has narrowed significantly since 1978. Along with that may have resulted in an increase in female drinking.
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Studies has shown that both genders are starting to drink at a younger age. The average age of first use of alcohol was about 14, compared to about 17 1/2 in 1965.(NIAAA (2006)
It can be guessed that college may be a huge influence on binge drinking. In 2002, a study found nation wide in America that alcohol use was reported by 64.1 % of full-time college students [aged 18 to 22] compared with 54.3 % of persons 18 to 22 who were not currently enrolled full time.(UDHH.htm)
Bryanna Furlong
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