TY - JOUR
T1 - Binge drinking
T2 - Not the word of choice
AU - Goodhart, Fern Walter
AU - Lederman, Linda C.
AU - Stewart, Lea P.
AU - Laitman, Lisa
N1 - Funding Information:
Research reported in this Viewpoint was funded, in part, by grants from the US Department of Education Safe and Drug Free Schools Program, US Department of Education Fund for the Improvement of Post Secondary Education, Rutgers University Health Services, and Rutgers University Department of Communication. We wish to express our appreciation to Adrienne Coleman for her careful reading and suggestions about this article.
PY - 2003
Y1 - 2003
N2 - Educators and researchers strive to use terms that reflect a replicable measure of behavior. A term commonly used to describe drinking of a problematic nature is binge drinking. Binge drinking defines behavior by a number of drinks of an alcoholic beverage consumed in a space of time. The authors argue that the term does not describe drinking behavior that students believe is problematic. They claim that students define problem drinking not in terms of quantity, but rather by the outcome (and occasionally by frequency), and attribute different negative connotations to the term binge. They suggest using a term that has shared meaning with students, such as dangerous drinking, to describe the drinking behavior that results in undesirable or unintended consequences.
AB - Educators and researchers strive to use terms that reflect a replicable measure of behavior. A term commonly used to describe drinking of a problematic nature is binge drinking. Binge drinking defines behavior by a number of drinks of an alcoholic beverage consumed in a space of time. The authors argue that the term does not describe drinking behavior that students believe is problematic. They claim that students define problem drinking not in terms of quantity, but rather by the outcome (and occasionally by frequency), and attribute different negative connotations to the term binge. They suggest using a term that has shared meaning with students, such as dangerous drinking, to describe the drinking behavior that results in undesirable or unintended consequences.
KW - Binge drinking
KW - College student alcohol use
KW - Dangerous drinking
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U2 - 10.1080/07448480309595723
DO - 10.1080/07448480309595723
M3 - Article
C2 - 14717580
AN - SCOPUS:0347318207
SN - 0744-8481
VL - 52
SP - 44
EP - 46
JO - Journal of the American College Health Association
JF - Journal of the American College Health Association
IS - 1
ER -