11% of Women College Students Blackout Each Month
September 24th, 2008 · Education and ESL, Society, Surveys and Studies, Women in Korea · 7 comments
Original article. You can read some similar research on US college students here.
Out of 100 female college students, each month 19 lose their self-control due to drinking alcohol and 11 experience blackouts, a study has found.
On the 22nd professor Do Eun-yeong of the Ehwa Women’s University nursing department published the study, which in May surveyed 212 first- and second-year students, 139 office workers between the ages of 20 and 59, 153 housewives, 142 pregnant women, and 25 unmarried mothers between 16 and 31 — 671 women in all — and asked them about their drinking habits.
To the question of how often they lost self-control due to alcohol 14% of the students answered “once a month”, 4% answered “once a week” and 1% “almost every day”, while 6% of office workers and 3% of houusewives answered “at least once a month”.
Asked how often they experienced memory loss, 7% of students said at least once per month, 3% once a week, and 1% almost every day, a total of 11%. 6% of office workers and 2% of housewives answered at least once a month.
The study concluded that a great many female college students frequently have daily difficulties or behave irresponsibly.
Also, 51% of the students drink two to four times a week, 13% two to three times, and 3% at least four times a week, while 23% drink less than once a month and just 11% never drink. 35% consume at least seven drinks per sitting.
Professer Do Eun-yeong said, “compared to our study three years ago we found that female college students are consuming more alcohol. Women are increasingly consuming alcohol, and students want a sense of freedom after the university entrance exams and so on.”
Professer Do plans to present the study at a seminar on women and alcohol in Gwangju on the 24th.
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Hey hey hey. I don’t believe it. I drink with the girls all the time and they always remember how much of a !@#$* I was the night before.
I wonder what country has the highest per capital blackout rate overall….
nicknows · September 24th, 2008 at 6:59 AM
That’s a pretty amazing and startling figure but I have three points to add to the issue.
1) 11% blacking out? That means 89% of people are drinking, what, responsibly?
2) Yes, with the readiness of alcohol establishments that never check id’s only feet from universities (have you ever walked the streets of Shinchon), it’s not surprise
3) I think equally alarming is the average debt of young Koreans, male and female, combined with the unemployment rate. Maybe a reason to drink.
Editor · September 24th, 2008 at 7:27 AM
I’m not surprised by this at all. They spend 18 years being told what to do and having their lives micro-managed just so that they can get into university, without being taught any self-reliance or independent decision making. Then when suddenly all restrictions are lifted and they can do whatever they want, they go nuts with it. I once edited a paper for a friend of mine (a third-year uni student) titled ‘The Dangers of Drinking’. The content was about how to recover from a hangover rather more than how to avoid getting one. That very same week she got smashed, blacked out, and lost her wallet and phone at a bar.
Yu Bumsuk · September 24th, 2008 at 8:48 AM
Wow… Only 11% black out? I’m with you ‘Editor.’ I think that number looks a little low. I remember being a college student… Or rather, I remember some of it ;)
Ian · September 24th, 2008 at 10:34 AM
3. I saw a girl give a similar speach at a university. It was about changing the drinking culture. The crux of her arguement was about how when you go drinking you should eat greasy food to protect your stomach.
Actually the research I would like to see is the percentage of 40 something men who get completely smashed before 8:00 at night.
fred · September 24th, 2008 at 12:19 PM
While I agree with YBS, I’d like to point out that it’s not TOO different from what happens in America. You put a whole mess of kids together and give them minimal responsbilities after living under their parents’ thumbs for 18 years and of course many of them are going to go apeshit. The only difference being that in America there are repurcussions for it.
Here in Korea, if you go out drinking every night and skip class it’s not going to affect anything. You’ll still pass and graduate and never learn that sometimes you pay for the choices you make. In the US if you never show up and never do your work you’ll fail out. When I asked a class of high school students how you can get kicked out of university they all said, “if you don’t pay.” Not one said, “if your grades are bad or if you never go to class.” They were literally dumbfounded that kids can actually be kicked out of school.
YBS is Right · September 24th, 2008 at 4:59 PM
Koreans definitely drank more in the past.
hardyandtiny · September 26th, 2008 at 4:32 AM