Contextualizing Students’ Alcohol Use Perceptions and Practices within French Culture: An Analysis of Gender and Drinking among Sport Science College Students

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• 作者：Florian Lebreton ; Robert L. Peralta ; Jacquelyn Allen-Collinson…
• 关键词：Gender orientation ; Gender ; Masculinity ; Alcohol use ; Culture of intoxication ; Health ; Risk ; College students ; International ; France
• 刊名：Sex Roles
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：February 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：76
• 期：3-4
• 页码：218-235
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• 刊物类别：Behavioral Science
• 刊物主题：Gender Studies; Sociology, general; Medicine/Public Health, general;
• 出版者：Springer US
• ISSN：1573-2762
• 卷排序：76

文摘

Although research has examined alcohol consumption and sport in a variety of contexts, there is a paucity of research on gender and gender dynamics among French college students. The present study addresses this gap in the literature by examining alcohol use practices by men and women among a non-probability sample of French sport science students from five different universities in Northern France. We utilized both survey data (N = 534) and in-depth qualitative interviews (n = 16) to provide empirical and theoretical insight into a relatively ubiquitous health concern: the culture of intoxication. Qualitative data were based on students’ perceptions of their own alcohol use; analysis were framed by theoretical conceptions of gender. Survey results indicate gender differences in alcohol consumption wherein men reported a substantially higher frequency and quantity of alcohol use compared to their female peers. Qualitative findings confirm that male privilege and women’s concern for safety, masculine embodiment via alcohol use, gendering of alcohol type, and gender conformity pressures shape gender disparities in alcohol use behavior. Our findings also suggest that health education policy and educational programs focused on alcohol-related health risks need to be designed to take into account gender category and gender orientation.