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Allison M. Grant – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Alcohol use peaks in early adulthood and rates are significantly higher among college students than their non-college attending peers. Negative alcohol-related outcomes are common among college drinkers. This longitudinal study aimed to reduce negative alcohol-related outcomes, indirectly, by promoting the salience of first-year students' academic…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Drinking, Alcohol Abuse, Goal Orientation
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DeLay, Dawn; Burk, William J.; Laursen, Brett – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2022
Higher accepted friends are known to influence the alcohol misuse of lower accepted friends, but not the reverse. The present study was designed to address the origins of this influence: Are higher accepted friends particularly "influential" or are lower accepted friends particularly "susceptible" to influence? To address this…
Descriptors: Peer Influence, Social Networks, Adolescents, Drinking
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DiPierro-Sutton, Moneika; Poquiz, Jonathan; Brown, Shaquanna; Fite, Paula; Bortolato, Marco – Journal of American College Health, 2022
Objective: Substance use peaks in emerging adulthood, with evidence suggesting that college-attending emerging adults have a higher rate of substance use than their non-college attending peers. More insight into the factors that might contribute to substance use among college-attending emerging adults is needed. The current study examined the…
Descriptors: Substance Abuse, Emotional Response, Undergraduate Students, Young Adults
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Patton, Rikki; Weigold, Ingrid K. – Journal of American College Health, 2022
Objective: Research examining the relationship between alcohol use and relational ethics (fairness and trustworthiness in family and romantic relationships) among college students is lacking. Method: Participants were recruited from a Department of Psychology human subjects pool at a Midwestern university. A total of 421 participants were included…
Descriptors: Ethics, Drinking, Intimacy, Interpersonal Relationship
Wisconsin Policy Forum, 2022
This is the executive summary for the report, "Road to Recovery: Improving Substance Use Disorder Services in Milwaukee County." The challenges associated with alcohol and substance use disorders (SUDs) in Wisconsin and Milwaukee County are well-documented and severe. Milwaukee County's Behavioral Health Services (BHS) has led efforts to…
Descriptors: Substance Abuse, County Programs, Addictive Behavior, Alcohol Abuse
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Jonathan M. Tirrell; Mutale Sampa; Kit Wootten; Sion Kim Harris; Robert E. McGrath; Mataanana Mulavu; Ntazana Sindano; Lameck Kasanga; Oliver Mweemba; Dana McDaniel Seale; J. Paul Seale; Wilbroad Mutale – Child & Youth Care Forum, 2025
The Global Resilience Oral Workshops (GROW) Free and Strong programs take a strengths-based, positive youth development (PYD) approach to promoting thriving. Through both prevention (GROW Strong) and intervention (GROW Free) exercises, these programs aim to build character and emotional resilience while also lowering unhealthy alcohol use. To…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Resilience (Psychology), Youth Programs, Prevention
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Evans, Jacqueline R.; Schreiber Compo, Nadja; Carol, Rolando N.; Nichols-Lopez, Kristin; Holness, Howard; Furton, Kenneth G. – Applied Cognitive Psychology, 2019
Intoxicated witnesses are common, making it important to understand alcohol's impact on witness accuracy and suggestibility. Participants assigned to an immediate retrieval condition encoded and recalled in one of the three intoxication conditions: sober control, placebo, or intoxicated. Participants in the delayed retrieval condition were…
Descriptors: Alcohol Abuse, Memory, Reliability, Accuracy
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Janssen, Steve M. J.; Anne, Michele – Applied Cognitive Psychology, 2019
Studies examining the influence of alcohol intoxication have reported mixed findings on whether it impairs eyewitness memory. Although the studies in this Special Issue investigated different questions and tested different variables, the findings of these studies collectively provide insight into mechanisms and methodological issues that may…
Descriptors: Memory, Metacognition, Alcohol Abuse, Cognitive Processes
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Olmstead, Spencer B.; Anders, Kristin M.; Clemmons, Delia M. A.; Davis, Kayley N. – Journal of The First-Year Experience & Students in Transition, 2019
The transition to college includes exposure to new cultures, such as the college drinking culture, which is likely to be encountered within the first few weeks. We conducted a qualitative content analysis of 242 first-semester undergraduate students' written comments to open-ended questions about their perceptions of and expectations for…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Student Attitudes, Expectation, Drinking
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Katharina Sophie Vogt; John Stephenson; Paul Norman – Journal of American College Health, 2023
Objective: Self-affirmation theory proposes that defensive processing prevents people from accepting health-risk messages, which may explain university students' dismissal of risk-information about binge drinking. SA-interventions may encourage non-biased processing of such information through impacting on interpersonal feelings and self-esteem.…
Descriptors: Alcohol Abuse, Risk Management, Student Attitudes, Intervention
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Dunn, Michael S.; Yannessa, John F. – Journal of Alcohol and Drug Education, 2020
Research has found that adolescents who report being gay, lesbian, or bisexual (i.e., sexual minorities) are at higher risks for using alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs (ATOD). Although there are numerous studies that have identified health disparities among sexual minority youth as a whole, few have assessed whether teens who report bisexuality…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Drug Abuse, Alcohol Abuse, Smoking
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Liu, Yiyang; Ball, Jacob D.; Elliott, Amy L.; Jacobs-Elliott, Michelle; Nicolette, Guy – Journal of American College Health, 2020
Objective: Cocaine use is increasing. Comorbidities and diagnostic sequencing are needed among college students to inform treatment of cocaine use disorder (CUD). Method: Using electronic medical records from the psychiatric clinic at the student health care center of a large, public university from 2005 to 2015, patients diagnosed with CUD were…
Descriptors: Cocaine, Drug Abuse, Mental Disorders, College Students
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McMahon, Jenny; McGannon, Kerry R. – Sport, Education and Society, 2021
In this paper, narrative analysis using a story analyst approach is used to explore how three former athletes (i.e. amateur and elite swimmers) self-managed their abuse experiences post-sport with a focus on the use, and meaning, of 'indirect self-injury' forms. Using the concept of 'emotion work', the swimmers' stories show how they reconfigured…
Descriptors: Athletes, Emotional Response, Self Destructive Behavior, Self Management
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Hutchison, Morica; Russell, Beth S. – Journal of Drug Education, 2021
A systematic review explored the creation and maintenance of community coalitions as effective for alcohol and other drug (AOD) prevention in adolescence. Community coalitions influence the implementation of effective and sustainable community-based prevention via infrastructure supporting development, delivery, and assessment of human service…
Descriptors: Substance Abuse, Prevention, Alcohol Abuse, Drug Abuse
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Shi, Molin; Littlefield, Andrew K.; Stevens, Angela K. – Journal of American College Health, 2021
Although substance use is considered normative in college, continued examination of factors associated with problematic use is merited. This study identified latent substance user classes and examined their relations with sex, race/ethnicity, impulsivity-like facets, and substance use outcomes among 702 undergraduate students. Non-Alcohol…
Descriptors: Substance Abuse, Gender Differences, Racial Differences, Ethnicity
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