Behavioral definitions of problem drinking among college students.

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To examine the behavioral criteria individuals use in deciding whether someone is a problem drinker, 400 (173 women) college students rated the extent to which 53 behaviors and situations were indicative of problem drinking. A factor analysis of their ratings identified 6 factors, listed in descending order of how strongly they reflected problem drinking: social concern (expressions of concern about one''s drinking from other persons); drinking at inappropriate times; negative consequences of drinking; motivations for drinking; intoxication; and consumption (the quantity and frequency of drinking). The extent to which each factor was considered indicative of problem drinking was negatively related to the quantity and frequency of the respondents'' own drinking, i.e., the more they drank, the lower they rated all factors as indications of problem drinking. Men rated all of the factors, except negative consequences and intoxication, as less indicative of problem drinking than did women.

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