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Alcohol Use and Related Behaviors among Late-Adolescent Urban Youths: Peer and Parent Influences
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Schwinn, Traci M.; Schinke, Steven P. – Journal of Child & Adolescent Substance Abuse, 2014
Peer and parent influences on alcohol use and related risky behaviors were examined in a sample of late-adolescent (M = 17.3 years; SD = 1.11 years) urban youths. Participants (N = 400) completed an online measure assessing peer influences of alcohol use and alcohol offers and also parental influences of rules against alcohol use and perceived…
Descriptors: Drinking, Parent Influence, Correlation, Parent Child Relationship
An Exploration of the Relationship between Social and Psychological Factors and Being Bullied
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Harlow, Kirk C.; Roberts, Roe – Children & Schools, 2010
Bullying in schools has received increasing attention since its implication in a number of school-based shooting incidents. A number of protective factors have been identified as reducing risk behaviors such as substance abuse among adolescents. This framework, however, has not been examined with respect to bullying victims. The results of a…
Descriptors: Bullying, Alcohol Abuse, Adolescents, School Districts
Student Drinking: New Strategies but No Magic Bullet
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Gilroy, Marilyn – Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 2009
More than 1,700 students between the ages of 18 and 24 die each year from alcohol-related causes, according to the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA). These students succumb to alcohol poisoning, cardiac arrest, or injuries from falls off dorm room balconies or other heights on campus. The problem of binge drinking, defined…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Alcohol Education, Alcohol Abuse, Drinking
Binge and Non-Binge College Students' Perceptions of Other Students' Drinking Habits
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Miley, William M.; Frank, Michael – College Student Journal, 2006
We investigated whether there was a relationship between the amount of alcohol students drank themselves and the amount they believed other students drank. We further investigated whether peer relationships affected their perceptions on drinking more than their perceptions of student drinking in general. Three hundred six students at The Richard…
Descriptors: Sororities, On Campus Students, Drinking, Student Attitudes
Alcohol and Traffic Safety.
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Dickman, Frances Baker, Ed. – Evaluation and Program Planning, 1988
Seven papers discuss current issues and applied social research concerning alcohol traffic safety. Prevention, policy input, methodology, planning strategies, anti-drinking/driving programs, social-programmatic orientations of Mothers Against Drunk Driving, Kansas Driving Under the Influence Law, New Jersey Driving While Impaired Programs,…
Descriptors: Alcohol Abuse, Alcohol Education, Community Planning, Computer Simulation
Attitudes of Rural Middle-School Youth toward Alcohol, Tobacco, Drugs, and Violence
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Kelly, Kathleen J.; Comello, Maria Leonora G.; Edwards, Ruth W. – Rural Educator, 2004
Since 1996, our research team has conducted 15 focus groups with 169 middle-school youth in small communities as formative research for campaigns against alcohol, tobacco, drugs, and violence. Some key findings of a synthesis of focus-group results are that girls and boys perceive different risks to alcohol and tobacco use; peer relationships are…
Descriptors: Role Models, Smoking, Narcotics, Focus Groups