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This study found a statistically significant inverse relationship between defensiveness and female college students' Michigan Alcoholism Screening Test (M. L. Selzer, 1971) and CAGE (J. A. Ewing, 1984) scores. Female college students who produce negative screening scores were more defensive than those whose alcohol use screens were positive.
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College student alcohol use is a serious problem (Collins, Koutsky, Morsheimer, & MacLean, 2001). Approximately 40% of college students drink heavily at least once over any given 2-week period, while 22% do so three or more times in the same time period (O'Malley & Johnston, 2002; Wechsler, Lee, Kuo, & ...
Source: HighBeam Research, Defensiveness in female college students and its impact on their MAST...