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Sexual Behavior and Heavy Episodic Drinking Across the Transition to Adulthood: Differences by College Attendance
Author(s) -
Vasilenko Sara A.,
LindenCarmichael Ashley,
Lanza Stephanie T.,
Patrick Megan E.
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
journal of research on adolescence
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.342
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 1532-7795
pISSN - 1050-8392
DOI - 10.1111/jora.12348
Subject(s) - psychology , attendance , sexual behavior , longitudinal study , demography , association (psychology) , heavy drinking , young adult , developmental psychology , clinical psychology , medicine , environmental health , injury prevention , poison control , economics , psychotherapist , economic growth , pathology , sociology
Despite a growing literature on college students’ sexual behaviors, little is known about how sexual behaviors, and their associations with alcohol, differ for college and noncollege attenders, and whether these patterns represent changes during college or an extension of pre‐college behaviors. This paper applied time‐varying effect models to data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health to examine (1) prevalence of four sexual behaviors from ages 14 to 24 and (2) how their association with frequent heavy episodic drinking varied across these ages for college and noncollege attenders. Nonattenders have higher prevalence of all sexual behaviors than college attenders across most ages; however, the association between heavy episodic drinking and sexual behaviors is stronger for college attenders during ages 18–20.