How Collegiate Fraternity and Sorority Involvement Relates to Substance Use During Young Adulthood and Substance Use Disorders in Early Midlife: A National Longitudinal Study.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

To assess how social fraternity involvement (i.e., membership and residence) in college relates to substance use behaviors and substance use disorder symptoms during young adulthood and early midlife in a national sample.

Methods

National multi-cohort probability samples of US high school seniors from the Monitoring the Future study were assessed at baseline (age 18) and followed longitudinally via self-administered surveys across seven follow-up waves to age 35. The longitudinal sample consisted of 7,019 males and 8,661 females, of which 10% of males and 10% of females were active members of fraternities or sororities during college.

Results

Male fraternity members who lived in fraternity houses during college had the highest levels of binge drinking and mari

SUBMITTER: McCabe SE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6040650 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature