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Eren, Colleen; Keeton, André – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2015
The impact of alcohol and substance abuse on college students' behavior has become a ripe area of focus and research. However, interest and research has primarily been focused on traditional four- year college students. Thus, the four-year college experience is taken as the default against which two-year colleges are compared. Nearly 12 million…
Descriptors: Two Year College Students, Two Year Colleges, Student Behavior, Substance Abuse
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Pruchno, Rachel A.; Wilson-Genderson, Maureen; Rose, Miriam; Cartwright, Francine – Gerontologist, 2010
Purpose: Positing that successful aging has independent, yet related, dimensions that are both objective and subjective, we examine how early influences and contemporary characteristics define 4 groups of people. Design and Methods: Data were gathered from 5,688 persons aged 50-74 years living in New Jersey who participated in telephone…
Descriptors: Group Membership, Health Behavior, Drinking, Aging (Individuals)
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Bo Vatnar, Solveig Karin; Bjorkly, Stal – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2010
This article reports a study of the possible impact of immigration on interactional aspects of intimate partner violence (IPV) among help-seeking women. Are there differences concerning (a) IPV categories, (b) IPV severity, frequency, duration, regularity, and predictability, (c) guilt and shame, (d) partners' ethnicity, and (e) children being…
Descriptors: Marital Status, Females, Foreign Countries, Immigration
Bachman, Jerald G.; Freedman-Doan, Peter; O'Malley, Patrick M.; Schulenberg, John E.; Johnston, Lloyd D. – Online Submission, 2008
A decade ago we published a book reporting an extensive analysis of nationwide panel data from the Monitoring the Future (MTF) project showing impacts of post-high school experiences on substance use (Bachman, Wadsworth, O'Malley, Johnston, & Schulenberg, 1997). One of the most important findings was that various categories of marital status,…
Descriptors: Marital Status, Smoking, Marriage, Young Adults
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Bronte-Tinkew, Jacinta; Moore, Kristin A.; Matthews, Gregory; Carrano, Jennifer – Journal of Family Issues, 2007
Depression has been extensively studied for mothers but not for fathers. This study examines the sociodemographic correlates of symptoms of depression and how depression is associated with father involvement using the Composite International Diagnostic Interview-Short Form (CIDI-SF) for major depression. The study uses a sample of 2,139 resident…
Descriptors: Fathers, Depression (Psychology), Symptoms (Individual Disorders), Infants
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Houry, Debra; Reddy, Sudha; Parramore, Constance – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2006
This study evaluated the frequency of coarrest in female victims who utilized 911 for intimate partner violence (IPV) and any patterns or circumstances that increased the likelihood of coarrest. All cases of police-documented IPV where a female IPV victim was arrested in conjunction with the perpetrator were included. Each incident report was…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Victims of Crime, Family Violence, Females