The 'Chat-Chewing Habit' and Its Incidental Interdependence with Alcohol-Drinking Among AAU, Main Campus Male Undergraduate Regular Students

Abstract

This sWdy was carried out Oil a sample of 123 mole. A.A.U,
main campus regular undergraduate slLldents in the academic year 2000101.
The main questions of tltis study are related to the prevalellce of chat,
alcohol and their combined use, both ill frequency alld extellt of lise, amollg
the student population under sllldy.
The instrument and procedures used ill this specific study is based all that
first developed by Allelle Tessema (1992) with modification. The researcher
applied different statistics such as: ANOVA, percelltage. Pearson 's product
moment correlation, chi-square pr), Schefle's method of multiple
comparisons, Cramer 's phi (@) and Index of Predictive Associatioll
Starisfics in analyzing the data.
The researcher found that 43 percent of the to/(l1 participants or 89.77
percent of the chat users joined 'he University wirh chat lise habit. These
students are also found to be heavy users of char. The study filrlher shows
that 60 percent of the total participants were users of chat, while 46.7
percent of them were alcohol users. Of all the participallfs, 30 percellt were
combined users. What is interesting is that 75 percent of the total chat users
and 71.43 percent of the total alcohol users were found to be heavy users.
In analyzing the relalions between chat and alcohol use to the background
variables, religion is found to be associated with chat alld alcohol use, both
in frequency and extellt of use.
III relatioll to chat and alcohol lise interdependence. half a/the total chat
users are found to be users of alcohol. There was also a significant
correlatioll (r :::: 0.47) between participants' allilLlde towards char alld
alcohol use .