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Testing Assumptions of the Categorization Approach to Studying Sports Participation and Alcohol Use
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Clarke, Paige; Dodge, Tonya; Marzell, Miesha; Turrisi, Rob; Williams, Kevin – Journal of Drug Education, 2018
The present study tested whether playing football or lacrosse in high school is associated with more problematic alcohol use during college compared with playing other sports in high school. A sample of undergraduate males (n = 2,940) in their freshmen year who had played sports in high school completed a web-based questionnaire. Results showed…
Descriptors: Athletics, Athletes, High School Students, Team Sports
Alcohol Expectancies in Relation to Personality and Aggression among Juvenile Delinquents in Northern Russia
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Koposov, Roman A.; Ruchkin, Vladislav V.; Eisemann, Martin; Sidorov, Pavel I. – Journal of Drug Education, 2005
The relationships between alcohol expectancies, level of alcohol use, alcohol-related problems, aggression, and personality factors in 198 Russian male juvenile delinquents were assessed. A clustering procedure was used in order to establish main patterns of alcohol expectancies, yielding three major clusters. Level of alcohol use, alcohol-related…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Personality Traits, Aggression, Alcoholism
Precursors, Mediators and Problem Drinking: Path Analytic Models for Men and Women.
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Woldt, Bradley D.; Bradley, John R. – Journal of Drug Education, 1996
Investigates direct and mediating effects of mechanisms hypothesized to account for the association between parental problem drinking and later problem drinking by offspring. Parents' drinking affected later problematic alcohol use by offspring. For both sexes, parental problem drinking reduced adaptive family functioning, which was subsequently…
Descriptors: Adults, Alcohol Abuse, Alcoholism, Child Neglect
Heavy Episodic Drinking and College Entrance
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Hartzler, Bryan; Fromme, Kim – Journal of Drug Education, 2003
The college environment appears to encourage heavy drinking. Consequently, correlates of student drinking were assessed at college entrance. First-semester freshmen (N = 520, 54 percent women) completed self-report measures of social affiliation and self/peer drinking for high school and college. Analyses indicated that: 1) increased drinking at…
Descriptors: Females, College Environment, Males, Alcohol Abuse
Life Events and Peer Substance Use and Their Relation to Substance Use Problems in College Students
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Taylor, Jeanette – Journal of Drug Education, 2006
Substance use disorders among college students are not well understood, and the present study examined the relationship of two environmental factors to alcohol and drug use problems in 616 (316 women) college students. Participants completed measures assessing substance use problems, life events, and substance use among peers. Alcohol use problems…
Descriptors: Student Experience, Substance Abuse, College Students, Environmental Influences
Substance Use, Self-Esteem, and Depression among Asian American Adolescents
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Otsuki, Teresa A. – Journal of Drug Education, 2003
The relationship of self-esteem and depression with alcohol, tobacco, and other drug (ATOD) use was tested in a California statewide sample of more than 4,300 Asian American high school students comprising five subgroups: Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Filipino, and Vietnamese. Estimated prevalence rates of alcohol, tobacco, and marijuana use among…
Descriptors: Females, Smoking, Males, Marijuana