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dc.contributor.authorKerr, Robert
dc.date.accessioned2013-12-17T15:35:49Z
dc.date.available2013-12-17T15:35:49Z
dc.date.issued2013
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10147/306965
dc.descriptionPer capita alcohol consumption by Irish teenagers has doubled over the past three decades. There has also been a doubling of the suicide rate among young men. The aim of this study was to measure the correlation between alcohol consumption and negative mood (as measured by elements of the Beck Depression Inventory) in a sample (n = 169) of final-year secondary school male students. A questionnaire was devised to ascertain frequency, type and quantity of alcohol consumed, as well as attitudes towards drinking in general. The questionnaire also assessed overall mood disturbance, and these two sets of results were analysed and correlation coefficients calculated. It was found that both alcohol consumption and mood disturbance varied widely throughout the sample and that total alcohol consumption correlated weakly but significantly with overall mood disturbance. However, there was a stronger, more significant correlation between frequency of feeling drunk and mood disturbance, indicating a much greater effect on the teenagers’ mood from binge drinking than from consistently drinking the same quantity of alcohol.en_GB
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherIrish Journal of Applied Social Studiesen_GB
dc.relation.urlhttp://arrow.dit.ie/ijass/vol13/iss1/3en_GB
dc.subjectALCOHOL MISUSEen_GB
dc.subjectYOUNG PEOPLEen_GB
dc.subjectSCHOOLen_GB
dc.titleAdolescent males in secondary school in Ireland: alcohol use and depressed mooden_GB
dc.typeArticleen
dc.identifier.journalIrish Journal of Applied Social Studiesen_GB
refterms.dateFOA2018-08-23T10:29:35Z


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