ArticleAddictive behaviors2018
An event- and network-level analysis of college students' maximum drinking day.
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- The role of whole network analysis in understanding health behaviours: a systematic review of smoking, alcohol use, physical activity, and diet.Frontiers in public health · 2026Pooled it
- Using social network analysis to examine alcohol use among adults: A systematic review.PloS one · 2019Pooled it
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- A systematic review of operational research modelling for alcohol consumption and its consequences.Health systems (Basingstoke, England) · 2026Review
- Pandemic Associated Changes in Personal Substance Use and Perceptions of Changes to Peer Substance Use among College Students: A Retrospective Assessment.Journal of drug education · 2025Article
- College Student Social Network Characteristics and Alcohol Use: Differences (and Similarities) Based on Sexual Identity and Attraction.Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs · 2025Article
- Network analysis of cognitive function, glycemic-lipid profiles, and hepatic-renal function in individuals with diverse drinking patterns.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2025Article
- Measuring Exposure to the Hazardous Drinking of Others and Perceived Opportunity to Intervene as a Bystander.Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs · 2024Article
- Contextual factors associated with high-intensity drinking events among young adults: A qualitative inquiry.Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research · 2021Article
- Relationships between social network characteristics, alcohol use, and alcohol-related consequences in a large network of first-year college students: How do peer drinking norms fit in?Psychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors · 2018Article
- U.S. College Students' Social Network Characteristics and Perceived Social Exclusion: A Comparison Between Drinkers and Nondrinkers Based on Past-Month Alcohol Use.Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs · 2018Article
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Abstract
backgroundHeavy episodic drinking is common among college students and remains a serious public health issue. Previous event-level research among college students has examined behaviors and individual-level characteristics that drive consumption and related consequences but often ignores the social network of people with whom these heavy drinking episodes occur. The main aim of the current study was to investigate the network of social connections between drinkers on their heaviest drinking occasions.
methodsSociocentric network methods were used to collect information from individuals in the first-year class (N=1342) at one university. Past-month drinkers (N=972) reported on the characteristics of their heaviest drinking occasion in the past month and indicated who else among their network connections was present during this occasion.
resultsAverage max drinking day indegree, or the total number of times a participant was nominated as being present on another students' heaviest drinking occasion, was 2.50 (SD=2.05). Network autocorrelation models indicated that max drinking day indegree (e.g., popularity on heaviest drinking occassions) and peers' number of drinks on their own maximum drinking occasions were significantly associated with participant maximum number of drinks, after controlling for demographic variables, pregaming, and global network indegree (e.g., popularity in the entire first-year class).
conclusionBeing present at other peers' heaviest drinking occasions is associated with greater drinking quantities on one's own heaviest drinking occasion. These findings suggest the potential for interventions that target peer influences within close social networks of drinkers.
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