High-School Student Drinking Behavior: Incidental Information from Two National Surveys

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Abstract
A secondary analysis of data from 2 comprehensive national studies of youth in high schools within the United States gives additional support to a number of generalizations about drinking behavior and attitudes toward drinking in this population. Findings based on a Purdue Opinion Panel Poll (N=2,000) and the Gallup Youth Survey (subsample N=l,296) further support previous reports that (1) although most youth in high school are eventually exposed to alcohol use, a pattern of drinking characterizes only a minority; (2) intensive drinking is reported infrequently; (3) patterns of use reflect factors such as age, sex, socioeconomic status, and subcultural differences in support of drinking behavior; and (4) approval of use by youth varies with their social characteristics and group experiences.

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