Essay On Heavy Drinking In College

In this article, researchers thought about the awareness of heavy drinking in college and universities across the United States. They were curious enough to determine who more is at risk between intercollegiate athletes, intramural/club athletes, and nonathletes, by putting together a study to figure out. Intramural/club athletes can be identified as previous competitors who want to continue self-identify themselves as athletes and maintain that association to a group without having to commit to the demands of a varsity sport. Intramural sports can range from traditional games like soccer and volleyball to nontraditional games such as flag football or kickball. In contrast, intercollegiate athletes, have structured mandatory times that they commit with each other like in …show more content…
Can settings such as football games, off-campus parties, bars etc. provoke athletes to consume more alcohol? If so, does this not create more high risk health factors? The researchers proposed to find out! Not only was it in their interest to figure out their statistics but also to provide health-risk behaviors that can help and make possible change for college students and athletes. Previous research has shown that college student athletes are at a much higher risk than their nonathletic peers for heavy drinking and alcohol-related problems.* The study had 2 main goals: (1) to compare the drinking patterns of intercollegiate and intramural/club athletes to non-student athletes and (2) to determine how often athletes were to participate in high-risk drinking settings and the relational risk of specific contexts such as fraternity or sorority parties or bars. They expected that these three groups would differ and assumed that intercollegiate athletes would be less involved in high drinking settings compared with intermural/club and