Students reported the number of HED occasions in the past month (defined as five or more standard drinks for men and four or more for women; Wechsler et al., 2002). The number of AP was obtained from the 18-item short version of the Rutgers Alcohol Problem Index (RAPI; White & Labouvie, 1989, 2000). The RAPI has demonstrated reliability and discriminant construct validity in both general population and clinical samples of adolescents and young adults (White, Filstead, Labouvie, Conlin, & Pandina, 1988; White & Labouvie, 1989, 2000) and the 18-item version correlates above .9 with the 23-item version (White & Labouvie, 2000). Students reported on the total number of AP experienced in the last three months (α = .73 - .80 across the three assessments). The distributions of the HED and AP were positively skewed and leptokurtic. They were subsequently log-transformed after adding a constant of one to normalize skewed distributions.4 The self-report alcohol use measures used in the current study are widely used in the literature on college drinking and have been found to be reliable when corroborated by collateral
