A Study on Drinking Culture and Attitude by Gender and Grade among College Students

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to investigate the drinking culture and attitude difference by gender and grade of Korean college students. A questionnaire was conducted to analyze the characteristics and meaningful differences by two variables about drinking pattern, culture and related policies. The analysis showed that regardless of gender, far more students were against than in favor of prohibition on drinking within campus, whose legislation recently failed. Meanwhile, there was a significant difference by grade in victimization experience regarding drinking within the campus, and by gender in frequency, beverage type, volume, onset of drinking within school. There was no statistically significant gender-based difference in response to experience of damage caused by drinking, but the research results of the related papers show that the female students are more dangerous and need special attention and care. Universities should implement a professional counseling program that is customized according to gender or level of education, and managed by group. Moreover, health authorities must seek a way to lead this move, such as providing incentives to the universities, which efficiently deal with students' drinking problem. And the prohibition on drinking within campus, whose legislation recently failed should be reconsidered.

Fig. 1. drinking rate over 10 glasses at once in 2009 and 2017

Fig. 2. Differences of Drinking Volume by Gender and Grade

Fig. 3. Differences of Drinking Frequency within Campus by Gender and Grade

Table 1. Comparison of drinking rate by Students and Adults (unit : %, M:Male, F:Female)[5]

Table 2. General Characteristics of Questionaire Responser and Result

Table 3. Frequency of Drinking by Gender and Grade

Table 4. Differences of Beverage Type by Gender and Grade

Table 5. Differences of Onset of Drinking by Gender and Grade

Table 6. Differences of Drinking Intention after Graduation by Gender and Grade

Table 7. Differences of Prohibition on Drinking & Experience of Damage caused by Drinking within Campus by Gender

Table 8. Differences of Prohibition on Drinking & Experience of Damage caused by Drinking within Campus by Grade

Table 10. Comparison Results of Related & This Study

Table 9. Differences of Drinking Frequency out of Campus and within Campus