Clever girls are more likely to binge-drink

 

Last updated at 22:16pm on 17th January 2007

 

 

Young women are more likely to binge-drink if they are well educated, says a study.

But the reverse is true in later life as those with fewer qualifications start drinking more heavily in their 40s.

Researchers believe the difference could be down to the fact that better-educated females tend to put off child rearing while less-educated ones have children earlier and are more likely to drink heavily when the children are grown up.

The type of jobs linked to higher and lower qualifications also contributes to contrasting drinking habits, the study found.

It examined the habits of 11,500 British men and women born during one week in March 1958. They were monitored and surveyed about how much and how often they drank at the ages of 23, 33 and 42.

Binge-drinking was classed as having ten or more units of alcohol - a half pint of lager, small glass of wine or pub measure of spirits - on one occasion for men and seven or more for women.

Less-educated men were found to be around three times more likely to be binge-drinkers at all times of their life than well-educated men.

Highly-educated women, however, were about one third more likely to binge drink at 23 than those with no or few qualifications.

By 42, women with no or few qualifications were more than twice as likely as their highly qualified peers to be binge-drinking.

Barbara Jefferis of the Institute of Child Health, who wrote the report of the study - published today in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health - said more research was needed to explain the differences between the two sets of women.

you dont really need a study for this, do you?

 

i just remember the day when uni started, i never saw so many drunken people on a monday evening.

you dont really need a study for this, do you?

 

i just remember the day when uni started, i never saw so many drunken people on a monday evening.

 

How incredibly paradoxical!!:rolleyes:

thats the way it is, at least where i was.

 

i've never noticed that in switzerland.

My flat mate drinks every single night. I think she has a problem....she missed her Spanish exam today because of it.

She also said she's going to drop out at the end of the year, as she enjoys the social life but not the work. Idiot.

thats the way it is, at least where i was.

 

i've never noticed that in switzerland.

 

That's because you don't tend to get "ladettes" in Switzerland!!:rolleyes:

My flat mate drinks every single night. I think she has a problem....she missed her Spanish exam today because of it.

She also said she's going to drop out at the end of the year, as she enjoys the social life but not the work. Idiot.

 

Definitely. I hope you've managed to resist the temptation!!

Definitely. I hope you've managed to resist the temptation!!

Temptation? My student union bar is so crap I hardly ever go there anymore, besides alcohol really doesnt appeal to me that much. I prefer going out on odd, specific nights: since Ive been back at uni Ive only been out one night. I want to properly focus on my work this term. :smug:

Temptation? My student union bar is so crap I hardly ever go there anymore' date=' besides alcohol really doesnt appeal to me that much. I prefer going out on odd, specific nights: since Ive been back at uni Ive only been out one night. I want to properly focus on my work this term. :smug:[/quote']

 

Well that's how it should be.;)

I've never been into alcohol either. The odd cocktail on holiday is about as far as it goes.

another reason why i consider studying in the uk. there seem to be quite a lot of students who dont take there studies too seriously.

 

its so different over here, some friends who at uni told me that theres many people who dont do anything else in their life but studying.

 

if only tutation fees werent that high. :embarassed:

another reason why i consider studying in the uk. there seem to be quite a lot of students who dont take there studies too seriously.

 

its so different over here, some friends who at uni told me that theres many people who dont do anything else in their life but studying.

 

if only tutation fees werent that high. :embarassed:

 

True - you could become an eternal student (otherwise known as "tax-dodgers"):P

True - you could become an eternal student (otherwise known as "tax-dodgers"):P

 

why would i wanna become an eternal student?

 

i know somebody who was... kind of. but that was for a different reason.

why would i wanna become an eternal student?

 

i know somebody who was... kind of. but that was for a different reason.

 

Which reason??:confused:

he wouldnt have been allowed to live in the uk if he hadnt been a student.

Incidentally, Jade Goody thought an "eternal student" was somebody who studied "girl" bands!!:rolleyes:

Incidentally' date=' Jade Goody thought an "eternal student" was somebody who studied "girl" bands!!:rolleyes:[/quote']

 

:lol:

 

 

 

anyway i really dont see the point of being an eternal student.

:lol:

 

 

 

anyway i really dont see the point of being an eternal student.

 

No - far better to be an external student!!:rolleyes:

i dont think its that easy actually. well it would be easy for me because i'm allowed to live and work in the uk anyway but not for people who arent.

 

i remember that guy who wasnt allowed to live in the uk even though he did have a visa.

To drink alcohol...

 

...damn my body not liking it :(