Background: The aim of the present study was to test promising constructs (decisional balance and drinking identity) and their interaction with gender as predictors of risky college drinking. We expectedthat, consistent with previous work, drinking identity would be positively associated with alcohol consumption and problems. We further expected that drinking identity would be more strongly related tooutcomes among individuals scoring low in decisional balance. Additionally, we expect the relationshipbetween drinking identity and alcohol behavior to vary as a function of decisional balance.