AIM To describe the personality and social characteristics associated with regular and episodic alcohol consumption in a Swedish cohort of women. METHODS 406 women aged 38 and 50 who participated in the Population Study of Women in Gothenburg in 2004-2005 with complete data on the key variables are included. Regular alcohol use was based on frequencies of alcoholic beverage consumption, reported to examining physicians. Regular drinking was defined as those consuming wine, beer, or spirits at least twice weekly. Episodic drinking was defined as consumption of six drinks or more on a single occasion at least once during the last year. Personality traits were studied using the self-administered 57-item Eysenck Personality Inventory, which includes a 'lie scale' measuring the tendency toward social desirability, a 'neuroticism scale', and an 'extraversion scale'. Logistic regression was used to estimate odds ratios (OR) for regular and episodic drinking, respectively, in relation to standardized (SD) personality scores and selected social characteristics. RESULTS 49% of the women reported episodic drinking, while 58% reported regular drinking, and 34% reported both. Women with a higher tendency toward socially desirable responses were less likely to report episodic drinking (odds ratio [OR] = 0.67, 95% confidence interval [CI] = 0.53-0.84) per standard deviation (SD), a trait that was not associated with regular drinking. CONCLUSIONS The strong inverse association between the propensity to lie scale with episodic but not regular drinking suggests that episodic drinking is subject to greater social desirability and under-reporting biases than regular drinking. Our findings indicate that this type of problem drinking may be missed in medical examinations, which limits the ability of health professionals to intervene.

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瑞典妇女经常饮酒或按时饮酒：定期饮酒的报道可能较少受到社会期望的偏见。

目的描述瑞典人群中经常和间歇性饮酒的个性和社会特征。方法纳入了2004年至2005年间参加哥德堡妇女人口研究的406名年龄在38岁和50岁的女性，其中包括关键变量的完整数据。定期饮酒是基于酒精饮料的饮用频率，已报告给检查医生。定期饮酒被定义为每周至少喝两次酒，啤酒或烈酒的人。间歇性饮酒定义为在过去一年中至少一次饮酒六次或以上。使用自我管理的57个项的艾森克人格量表研究了人格特质，其中包括“谎言量表”和“神经质量表”，该“量表”用于衡量社会渴望程度，和“外向量表”。逻辑回归分别用于估计常规饮酒和情节饮酒与标准（SD）人格评分和所选社交特征相关的比值比（OR）。结果49％的妇女报告发作性饮酒，58％的妇女报告定期饮酒，34％的妇女报告两者均饮酒。具有较高社会回应感的趋势的女性，每标准差（SD）发生发作性饮酒的可能性较小（优势比[OR] = 0.67，95％置信区间[CI] = 0.53-0.84），该特征与女性无关经常喝酒。结论情景饮酒倾向与间歇性饮酒而不是规律性饮酒之间有很强的逆相关性，表明间歇性饮酒比常规饮酒更容易受到社会的欢迎和偏见。