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Is Alcohol Consumption Associated with Poor Academic Achievement in University Students?
BACKGROUND: We assessed associations between educational achievement and alcohol consumption. METHODS: We employed five alcohol consumption measures (length of time of and amount consumed during most recent drinking occasion, frequency of alcohol consumption, heavy episodic drinking, problem drinkin...
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Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd
2013
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3843305/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24319558 |
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author | El Ansari, Walid Stock, Christiane Mills, Claire |
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description | BACKGROUND: We assessed associations between educational achievement and alcohol consumption. METHODS: We employed five alcohol consumption measures (length of time of and amount consumed during most recent drinking occasion, frequency of alcohol consumption, heavy episodic drinking, problem drinking); and three educational achievement indicators (students’ subjective importance of achieving good grades, students’ appraisal of their academic performance in comparison with peers, students’ actual module mark). RESULTS: Males were positively associated with all five alcohol consumption measures. Age was negatively associated with three alcohol consumption measures. While students´ importance of good grades was negatively associated with three alcohol consumption measures, academic performance in comparison with peers was negatively associated with heavy episodic drinking. Actual module mark was not associated with any alcohol consumption measure. CONCLUSIONS: Alcohol consumption showed negative associations with motivation for and subjectively achieved academic performance. University alcohol prevention activities might have positive impact on students’ academic success. |
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spelling | pubmed-38433052013-12-06 Is Alcohol Consumption Associated with Poor Academic Achievement in University Students? El Ansari, Walid Stock, Christiane Mills, Claire Int J Prev Med Original Article BACKGROUND: We assessed associations between educational achievement and alcohol consumption. METHODS: We employed five alcohol consumption measures (length of time of and amount consumed during most recent drinking occasion, frequency of alcohol consumption, heavy episodic drinking, problem drinking); and three educational achievement indicators (students’ subjective importance of achieving good grades, students’ appraisal of their academic performance in comparison with peers, students’ actual module mark). RESULTS: Males were positively associated with all five alcohol consumption measures. Age was negatively associated with three alcohol consumption measures. While students´ importance of good grades was negatively associated with three alcohol consumption measures, academic performance in comparison with peers was negatively associated with heavy episodic drinking. Actual module mark was not associated with any alcohol consumption measure. CONCLUSIONS: Alcohol consumption showed negative associations with motivation for and subjectively achieved academic performance. University alcohol prevention activities might have positive impact on students’ academic success. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2013-10 /pmc/articles/PMC3843305/ /pubmed/24319558 Text en Copyright: © International Journal of Preventive Medicine http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Original Article El Ansari, Walid Stock, Christiane Mills, Claire Is Alcohol Consumption Associated with Poor Academic Achievement in University Students? |
title | Is Alcohol Consumption Associated with Poor Academic Achievement in University Students? |
title_full | Is Alcohol Consumption Associated with Poor Academic Achievement in University Students? |
title_fullStr | Is Alcohol Consumption Associated with Poor Academic Achievement in University Students? |
title_full_unstemmed | Is Alcohol Consumption Associated with Poor Academic Achievement in University Students? |
title_short | Is Alcohol Consumption Associated with Poor Academic Achievement in University Students? |
title_sort | is alcohol consumption associated with poor academic achievement in university students? |
topic | Original Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3843305/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24319558 |
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