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Cognitive Patterns Resembling Premature Aging in Male Social Drinkers
Author(s) -
Parker Elizabeth S.,
Parker Douglas A.,
Brody Jacob A.,
Schoenberg Ronald
Publication year - 1982
Publication title -
alcoholism: clinical and experimental research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.267
H-Index - 153
eISSN - 1530-0277
pISSN - 0145-6008
DOI - 10.1111/j.1530-0277.1982.tb05380.x
Subject(s) - abstraction , psychology , alcohol , cognition , effects of sleep deprivation on cognitive performance , alcohol consumption , developmental psychology , demography , gerontology , medicine , clinical psychology , psychiatry , biology , philosophy , biochemistry , epistemology , sociology
In two samples of employed men (ns of 102 and 496), the amount of alcohol typically consumed per drinking occasion was significantly associated with decreased sober abstraction performance. Age was also significantly related to reduced abstraction scores. An increase of one drink in the quantity of alcohol typically consumed was associated with an average reduction in abstraction performance equivalent to 3.7 more yr of age in one sample and 2.4 more yr of age in the other sample.