Agent-based modeling of drinking behavior: A preliminary model and potential applications to theory and practice

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 96, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 2055-2060

  Gorman, Dennis M ^a   Mezic, Jadranka ^b   Mezic, Igor ^c   Gruenewald, Paul J ^d  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Aimdyn Inc   (United States)

^c University of California   (United States)

^d PREVENTION RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; PEER PRESSURE; SOCIAL INTERACTION; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ALCOHOL DRINKING; ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GROUP PROCESSES; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PEER GROUP; PERSUASIVE COMMUNICATION; RESTAURANTS; RISK-TAKING; SOCIAL CONFORMITY; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 33750430325     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2005.063289     Document Type: Article

References (34)

1. Gilbert N, Troitzsch KG. Simulation for the Social Scientist. Buckingham, UK: Open University Press; 1999.
2. Epstein JM, Axtell RL. Growing Artificial Societies: Social Science From the Bottom Up. Cambridge, Mass: The MIT Press; 1996.
3. Hegselmann R. Understanding social dynamics: the cellular automata approach. In: Troitzsch KG, Mueller U, Gilbert GN, Doran JE, eds. Social Science Microsimulation. New York, NY: Springer; 1996: 282-306.
4. Bonabeau E. Agent-based modeling: methods and techniques for simulating human systems. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002;99(suppl 3):7280-7287.
5. Epstein JM. Modeling civil violence: an agent-based computational approach. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002; 99(suppl 3):7243-7250.
6. Macy MW, Willer R. From factors to actors: computational sociology and agent-based modeling. Annu Rev Sociol. 2002;28:143-166.
7. Penzar D, Srbljinovic A. Dynamic modeling of ethnic conflicts. Int Trans Oper Res. 2004;11:63-76.
8. Edling CR. Mathematics in sociology. Annu Rev Sociol. 2002;28:197-220.
9. Bobashev GV, Zule WA, Root ED, Wechsberg WM, Borschev AV, Filipov AE. Scalable mathematical models for substance use: from social networks to the whole population. Poster presented at: 66th Annual Meeting of the College on Problems of Drug Dependence; June 12-17, 2004; San Juan, PR. Available at: http://www. xjtek.com/files/papers/scalablemathematical2004.pdf. Accessed July 25, 2006.
10. Gruenewald PJ, Stockwell T, Beel A, Dyskin EV. Beverage sales and drinking and driving: the role of on-premise drinking places. J Stud Alcohol. 1999;60: 47-53.
11. Bromley RDF, Nelson AL. Alcohol-related crime and disorder across urban space and time: evidence from a British city. Geoforum. 2002;33: 239-254.
12. Gorman DM, Gruenewald PG, Hanlon PJ, Mezic I, Waller LA, Castillo-Chavez C, et al. Implications of systems dynamic models and control theory for environmental approaches to the prevention of alcohol- and other drug use-related problems. Subst Use Misuse. 2004;39:1713-1750.
13. Dawson DA. Methodological issues in measuring alcohol use. Alcohol Res Health. 2002;27:18-29.
14. Labouvie EW. Maturing out of substance use: selection and self-correction. J Drug Issues. 1996;26: 457-476.
15. Sobell LC, Ellingstad TP, Sobell MB. Natural recovery from alcohol and drug problems: methodological review of the research with suggestions for future directions. Addiction. 2000;95:749-764.
16. Vik PW, Cellucci T, Ivers H. Natural reduction of binge drinking among college students. Addict Behav. 2003;28:643-655.
17. Dawson DA, Grant BF, Stinson FS, Chou PS, Huang B, Ruan WJ. Recovery from DSM-IV alcohol dependence: United States, 2001-2002. Addiction. 2005;100:281-292.
18. Zucker RA. Pathways to alcohol problems and alcoholism: a developmental account of the evidence for multiple alcoholisms and for contextual contributions to risk. In: Zucker RA, Boyd G, Howard J, eds. The Development of Alcohol Problems: Exploring the Biopsychosocial Matrix of Risk. Washington, DC: US Government Printing Office; 1994:255-289. NIAAA Research Monograph 26.
19. Wechsler H, Kuo M. Watering down the drinks: the moderating effect of college demographics on alcohol use of high-risk groups. Am J Public Health. 2003; 93:1929-1933.
20. Heather N, Robertson I. Problem Drinking. 2nd ed. New York, NY: Oxford University Press; 1989.
21. Borsari B, Carey KB. Peer influences on college drinking: a review of the research. J Subst Abuse. 2001; 13:391-424.
22. Sánchez F, Wang X, Castillo-Chávez C, Gorman DM, Gruenewald PG. Drinking as an epidemic-a simple mathematical model with relapse, education and detoxification. In: Marlatt GA, Witkiewitz K, eds. Therapist's Guide to Evidence-Based Relapse Prevention. New York, NY: Elsevier. In press.
23. Gruenewald PJ, Johnson FW, Treno AJ. Outlets, drinking and driving: a multivariate analysis of availability. J Stud Alcohol 2002;63:460-468.
24. Harford TC, Wechsler H, Seibring M. Attendance and alcohol use at parties and bars in college: a national survey of current drinkers. J Stud Alcohol. 2002; 63:726-733.
25. Demers A, Kairouz S, Adlaf EM, Gliksman L, Newton-Taylor B, Marchand A. Multilevel analysis of situational drinking among Canadian undergraduates. Soc Sci Med. 2002;55:415-424.
26. Durrett R, Levin S. The importance of being discrete (and spatial). Theor Popul Biol. 1994;46: 363-394.
27. Levin S, Durrett R. From individuals to epidemics. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 1996;351: 1615-1621.
28. Patten SB, Arboleda-Florez JA. Epidemic theory and group violence. Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol. 2004;39:853-856.
29. Haines B, Graham K. Violence prevention in licensed premises. In: Stockwell T, Gruenewald PJ, Toumbourou JW, Loxley W, eds. Preventing Harmful Substance Use: The Evidence Base for Policy and Practice. New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons; 2005:163-176.
30. Felson M. Routine activities and crime prevention in the developing metropolis. Criminology. 1987;25: 911-931.
31. Stockwell T, Lang E, Rydon P. High risk drinking settings: the association of serving and promotion practices with harmful drinking. Addiction. 1993;88: 1519-1526.
32. Homel R, McIlwain G, Carvolth R. Creating safer drinking environments. In: Heather N, Peters TJ, Stockwell T, eds. International Handbook of Alcohol Dependence and Problems. New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons; 2001:721-740.
33. Cox WM, Yeates GN, Gilligan AT, Hosier SG. Individual differences. In: Heather N, Peters TJ, Stockwell T, eds. International Handbook of Alcohol Dependence and Problems. New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons; 2001: 357-374.
34. Bischof G, Rumpf HJ, Meyer C, John U. Types of natural recovery from alcohol dependence: a cluster analytic approach. Addiction. 2003;98:1737-1746.