Mode Of Gender

According to graph 1, the mode of gender was 1. In that case the number one represented the female participants. Clearly there were many more female respondents than male. 72.5% of respondents were female while 15.5% were males. 12.1% did not report their gender. Both graph #2 and table #1 illustrate the dependent variable of using alcohol as a coping strategy. The median of using alcohol as a coping mechanism for stress was 1. In this case, 1 reflects to category of “none”. This means that the median of people have not used alcohol to cope with stress in the past month. As seen in table #1, 52.9% of people reported that they had not used alcohol to cope with stress in the past month. 23.8% of the participants reported that they had used alcohol to cope with stress “a little” within the past month.
Only 5.4% of the participants reported using alcohol as a coping mechanism for stress “a lot” within the past month. The results from the bivariate analysis of the independent and dependent variables are illustrated in table #2. As seen in the results, 50.3% of women and 63.4% of men have not used alcohol to cope with stress in the past month. In addition, 25.1% of females and 19.5% of males have used alcohol “a little” to cope with stress. 19.4% of females and 9.8% of males used “some” alcohol to cope with stress. Only 5.2% of females and 7.3% of males used alcohol :a lot” to cope with stress. The Chi-Square test of significance reported a p-value of 0.31. This indicates that there is no significant difference between using alcohol to cope with stress and gender for the undergraduate students in the college of