Attitudes Toward Alcoholism Among a Group of College Students

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Abstract
More and more investigations regarding attitudes toward alcoholism are being reported, as awareness of the importance of this variable in, for example, the treatment of alcoholism is heightened. Many of the studies are concerned with the attitudes of professionals towards alcoholism and alcoholics. Almost the entire remainder of this body of literature deals with the attitudes of the general public concerning alcoholism. Only the former group of studies include any significant concern with students, e.g., medical students (Chodorkoff, 1967) and student nurses (Ferneau, 1967; Chodorkoff, 1969). This may be a manifestation of a belief that only professionals are involved in the treatment of alcoholism. We know, of course, that this is not so: professionals operate in a societal context of norms, sanctions, and mores.