Diss. (sammanfattning) Stockholm : Karol. inst., 2001. / Härtill 5 uppsatser.

Thesis (M.S.)--Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1991. / Vita. Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 381-389). Also available via the Internet.

Thesis (Ph.D.) in Ecology and Environmental Science--University of Maine, 2007. / Includes vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 85-93).

Thesis (Master)--İzmir Institute Of Technology, İzmir, 2005. / Keywords:Trihalomethane, volatile organic compounds, drinking water, risk assessment, exposure. Includes bibliographical references (leaves. 64-70).

The thesis examines discourses around femininity and drinking in the United Kingdom in the current historical context. The research was comprised of two major studies. The first, a media text study, involved collecting articles, commentaries and visual material pertaining to women and alcohol from a range of national newspapers over nearly a three year period (January 1998 - December 2000). The second research study entailed the conduction of focus group interviews with women from diverse social backgrounds from South and West Yorkshire around the subject area of femininity and drinking. All texts and data collected were then subjected, predominantly, to a Foucauldian style of discourse analysis (e.g. Burman & Parker, 1993).The texts largely constructed drinking as problematic for women. Such meanings are informed by the construction of alcohol consumption as an essentially masculine activity (e.g. Kaminer & Dixon, 1995) and women as responsible carers who should not indulge in such male vices (e.g. Cooke & Allan, 1984). For example, drinking women are not only regarded as damaging their health but also as emasculating. The increasing presence of women within traditionally male domains (e.g. the pub) has also been met with moral panic and 'backlash' discourse (Faludi, 1992), particularly evident in recent media output. Further, drinking women were positioned as vulnerable and at risk from predatory and aggressive men (e.g. Lindqvist, 1991), but at the same time, partially responsible for any harm they may suffer by virtue of their 'unfeminine' conduct. This raises important issues around the attribution of responsibility for abusive male behaviour, which may be of concern to feminists, thus indicating such discourses as a site for intervention. Yet these operated alongside competing contemporary discourses which positioned drinking women in more powerful ways, for instance, as active sexual predators and aggressors, thus subverting a form of 'victim feminism' which has been heavily criticised in recent years (e.g. Roiphe, 1993; Paglia, 1992). Finally, the thesis further contributes to the postmodern deconstruction of the category 'women' as a unitary one (e.g. Wilkinson, 1996) by using alcohol consumption as a site for investigating the construction and negotiation of multiple forms of femininity. In sum, the thesis hopes to make a valuable contribution to feminist social psychological work around gender, as to date, analyses of women's drinking per se appear to be largely absent from this literature (Day et al, 2001a).

Les recherches ont fait état de caractéristiques de personnalité et de fonctionnement cognitif comme facteurs de vulnérabilité au binge drinking (BD) chez les jeunes. Cette relation peut être médiée par des motivations et attentes à consommer de l’alcool. De même que cette relation peut différer en fonction du genre. Cette thèse avait donc pour objectif de clarifier les liens entre ces caractéristiques de personnalité, le fonctionnement cognitif et la consommation d’alcool de type BD chez des étudiants.Pour la première partie de l’étude, 424 participants ont effectué des questionnaires portant sur la personnalité, l’état émotionnel et la consommation d’alcool. Sur les 424 participants, 120 ont effectué la seconde partie portant sur le fonctionnement cognitif. Les analyses de régressions hiérarchiques ont montré que différentes facettes de l’impulsivité (la désinhibition du questionnaire de Zuckerman, l’impulsivité motrice de la BIS-11, le manque de préméditation et la recherche de sensation de l’UPPS-P et la sensibilité à la récompense du questionnaire SPSRQ) seraient associées au BD. Le genre modérait la relation entre l’impulsivité motrice, la désinhibition et le BD. Les motivations et attentes à consommer médiraient également cette relation.Ces résultats suggèrent que pour mieux comprendre la relation entre le BD et les caractéristiques de personnalité, il est important de considérer l’ensemble des facettes de l’impulsivité mais également les facteurs les plus distaux tels que les motivations et attentes à consommer. Les interventions de prévention doivent donc se construire en considérant l’ensemble de ces aspects. / Research has identified personality characteristics and cognitive functioning as determinant factors of vulnerability to binge drinking (BD) among students. This relation may be mediated by alcohol expectancies and drinking motives. Also gender can moderate the relation between this characteristics and BD. The aim of this dissertation was to clarify the relations between personality characteristics, cognitive functioning and the BD in students. In the first part of the study, 424 participants completed personality, emotional states and the alcohol consumption questionnaires. From the 424 participants, a subsample of 120 participants completed the second part with an assessment of cognitive functioning. Hierarchical regression analyzes showed that different facets of impulsivity (Zuckerman's disinhibition, motor impulsivity of BIS-11, the lack of premeditation and sensation seeking measured by UPPS-P and reward sensitivity measured by the SPSRQ) are associated with BD. Gender moderated the relation between motor impulsivity, disinhibition and the BD. Alcohol expectancies and drinking motives mediates this relation.These results suggest that to better understand the relation between BD and personality characteristics, it is important to consider all facets of impulsivity along with more distal factors such as alcohol expectancies and drinking motives. Prevention interventions must consider all these aspects.

Previous research has established that there are large regional and demographic differences in drinking practices. The present study was designed to extend this research by conducting a survey of drinking practices of residents in three British Columbia cities located in widely separated regions of the province and differing in demographic composition. A total of 849 subjects, randomly selected from among the general population in each city, were interviewed in their homes. A comprehensive questionnaire, including several standard measures of levels of drinking and problem drinking as well as measures of neuroticism, extroversion and items relating to drug use, smoking and subject's perception of drinking, was employed. Levels of drinking were compared across cities and the levels obtained for the three cities combined were compared to levels found for other samples drawn from among populations in North America and elsewhere.. Levels of drinking were related to demographic, personality and other variables within the combined sample and compared with the extent of these relationships found in previous studies. A consistent pattern of differences was found between the three cities samples. Drinking, heavy drinking and problem drinking were found to be more prevalent in these three cities relative to most other North American samples. Rates were found, on all measures of drinking, to be higher in Rivertown--the city which had undergone rapid expansion during the past decade. Age, sex and income were found to be closely related to levels of drinking. These results were discussed within the framework of a schematic model which speculates about possible relationships and interrelationships between a number of variables and levels of drinking. / Arts, Faculty of / Psychology, Department of / Graduate

Thesis (PhD)--University of South Australia, 1998

Thesis (M.S. - Microbiology and Immunology)--University of Arizona, 1984. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 55-58).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 1989. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves [61]-69).