Higher educational attainment requires one to spend more years studying. According to a recent study availed in Molecular Psychiatry, this aspect may impact people’s drinking behavior, and lessen their likelihood of alcohol dependence.
The study involved a team of researchers from the National Institutes of Health in the United States.
Higher educational attainment show lower alcohol dependence
For higher educational attainment, someone needs to spend ample time researching and studying for optimal results. This attribute is one of the considerations incorporated into the study carried out by the researchers.
One of the investigators, Dr. Flak Lohoff, noted that they utilized data from a total of nearly 780,000 participants in the analysis. They found genetic variants linked to an additional 3.61 years of studying and found almost 50% reduced alcohol dependency.
Additionally, the research showed that the genetic variants associated with educational attainment impacted the pattern of alcohol usage, as well as the type of alcoholic beverage consumed.
Higher educational attainment linked to responsible alcohol consumption
The study also demonstrated that persons with higher educational attainment showed responsible tendencies when it came to alcohol consumption. For instance, whenever they drank alcohol, it was usually accompanied by meals.
Realistically, alcohol consumption has emerged to be a worldwide menace as it is a primary risk factor for disability and death. It has, therefore, become prudent to identify attributes linked to how often, how much, and what individuals drink.
The notion illustrated is that higher educational attainment is correlated with lower and responsible alcohol consumption.
Conversely, initiation ceremonies have been considered risky by UK universities. Students joining these institutions have been asked to be on the watch out of initiation ceremonies as they are perilous.
