Alcohol use has been connected to sociodemographic characteristics such as gender, ethnicity, and age on several occasions. In the stress-reduction, social-influence, and reasons-for-drinking literatures, gender and, to a lesser extent, ethnicity have been examined as mediating variables. As a result, the impacts of gender, ethnicity, and age on the above-mentioned correlations were investigated. When people said they drank alcohol to cope with stress, they drank more alcohol when they were stressed. When their friends often consumed alcohol at the social gatherings they attended together, people who reported consuming alcohol to be sociable drank more alcohol.