Many of the sociodemographic and risk factors predictive of 5+ binge drinking were similarly predictive of 10+ and 15+ extreme binge drinking. In particular, males and White adolescents engaged in more binge drinking at all levels than did females and Black, Hispanic, or Other race/ethnicity adolescents, similar to findings for lower-level drinking in prior empirical studies.45, 70, 71 Related behaviors and attitudes about drinking predicted binge drinking at all levels. The fact that the same risk factors predicted 5+ binge drinking and 10+ and 15+ extreme binge drinking suggests that additional, more prognostic, predictors for the different thresholds of binge drinking are needed.
