Abstract
Alcohol use continues to be a major risk behaviour among youth, with consequent
physical and or mental health complications. The current study aimed to establish
the prevalence and associated factors of alcohol usage among Babcock University
students in Ilishan Remo.Ogun state. A sample of 251 youth comprises of 224
males and 27 females were randomly selected to participate in the study. The means
age was 18.7 and standard deviation of 9.71. The descriptive survey of ex-post-facto
research design was employed. Two instruments namely Adolescent Behavioural
Inventory (ABPI) and Alcohol Abstinence Self- Efficacy Scale (ABSS) were used to
generate data for the study. All the hypotheses data were tested at 0.05 level of
significance. Data was analysis with the use of One way Anova, Multiple
Regression and Pearson product Moment Correlation. The results indicated that
there is a significant difference in family background, peer influence and emotion
towards the use of alcohol F (3,246) = 35.564; P< .05. Also, Peer influence was found
to be the best factor influencing the use of alcohol, (? = .518; t = 8.0345; p < .05),
followed by family background as (=? .344; t = 5.648; p <.05) and finally by
emotion (? = .231; t = 4.063; p <.05). Lastly, there is a significant relationship
between the three independent variables and alcohol usage. On the basis of finding,
appropriate recommendation were suggested
