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Why Me? An Exploratory Qualitative Study Of Drinking Gamers’ Reasons For Selecting Other Players To Drink, Shannon Audley, Kelcie Grenier, Jessica L. Martin, Jeremy Ramos Apr 2018

Why Me? An Exploratory Qualitative Study Of Drinking Gamers’ Reasons For Selecting Other Players To Drink, Shannon Audley, Kelcie Grenier, Jessica L. Martin, Jeremy Ramos

Education and Child Study: Faculty Publications

A drinking game (DG) is a high-risk drinking activity because it consists of rules that facilitate heavy drinking. The opportunity to select another player to drink is a feature of certain games, which makes DGs unique among other high-risk drinking activities. Thus, the present study’s aims were to examine the primary reasons why DG participants select another player to drink and why someone believes she or he was selected. We collected qualitative, online responses to open-ended questions about the personal qualities that increase players’ chances of being selected to drink while playing a DG (N = 409; emerging adults ages …