Washington, July 11 (ANI): Women tend to use moderate self-referral terms for intoxication, while men used heavy terms, according to research.
New findings confirm that men's drinking is generally described in terms indicative of excessive consumption while women tend to couch drinking in more moderate terms.
These labels of intoxication may impact perceptions and subsequent behaviors, but also inform tailored measures for prevention and intervention.
Understanding the natural language that drinkers use to describe intoxicated states can provide critical insight into subjective perceptions of intoxicated states, particularly among specific groups such as college students.
This study extends previous research by assessing how college students apply intoxication terms to characters in hypothetical situations, finding that the ways in which the two genders perceive and communicate intoxicated states may help tailor unique measures for prevention and intervention.
"Drinkers use a complex set of physical and cognitive indicators to estimate intoxication," Ash Levitt, a research scientist at the Research Institute on Addictions at the University at Buffalo, SUNY said.
"In order to quickly and easily communicate various levels of intoxication, drinkers distill these indicators down into distinct sets of natural language terms for intoxication, such as 'tipsy' or 'wasted.' Understanding this language is important as these terms reflect levels of intoxication as well as whether individuals are accurately estimating intoxication levels when they use these terms," the researcher said.
The research is set to be published in the journal Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research and is currently available at Early View. (ANI)
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