Download or read book Exploring Relationships Among Friendships Social Status and Problem Drinking in College Students written by Jared Rodrigues and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Previous research has demonstrated that students' peer groups have a powerful influence on individual alcohol use. Some specific findings include that students tend to overestimate their peers' drinking and approval of drinking behaviors, and that students will consume more to match these inflated perceptions (Borsari & Carey, 2001, 2003; Perkins & Craig, 2012). Previous research on social networks has also found that alcohol use is associated with increased popularity or status (Ennett et al., 2006; Moody et al., 2011; Reifman et al., 2006). Relatively few studies have addressed the ways in which one's closest peers can have a positive influence. Behavioral interventions that rely on positive peer influence have shown promising evidence in other arenas (Banyard et al., 2007; Hays et al., 2003). In order to better understand whether peer influence can be leveraged to reduce dangerous drinking and resultant harms, this study investigated three specific questions: (1) Can students recognize problem drinkers in their networks? (2) How do different measures of status correlate to drinking behaviors? and (3) What is the relationship between status and willingness to intervene or express disapproval for drinking behaviors? The present study employed methods of social network analysis to investigate these questions quantitatively. 200 participants from 8 fraternities and sororities completed a survey instrument that assessed individual alcohol behaviors and perceptions, and asked participants to nominate specific peers as: friends, someone who is fun to be around in a party/drinking setting, someone they look up to or admire, problem drinkers, and non-problem drinkers.Self-reported alcohol consequences was the strongest predictor variable for problem drinker nominations, suggesting that students perceive problem drinkers in their social networks with some level of accuracy. With regard to status it was found that while drinks per week and self-reported alcohol consequences showed some overall positive associations with friendship and status, both had nonlinear relationships with friendship nominations, and association actually becomes negative at higher levels. This suggests that more extreme or problematic alcohol behaviors actually have a social cost. Participants also completed a scale of items assessing their willingness to intervene helpfully with a peer whose drinking may be causing harm to self or others. Higher scores on this scale were predicted by self-reported use of harm reduction strategies (like deciding to limit drinking to a certain number of drinks) and having held a leadership position.These findings suggest that (1) students can recognize problem drinking in their peers, (2) that drinking, especially problematic drinking, is not socially rewarded unconditionally and can be negatively related to friendship and status, and (3) that students who hold leadership positions in their organizations and students who use protective behavioral strategies while drinking are more likely to helpfully intervene with friends. These findings suggest some promising ways forward for interventions that aim to engage students as part of the solution.

Download or read book Exploring the Role of Social Relationships in College Students Alcohol Use Decisions written by Perry M. Pauley and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Friends Romantic Partners and Casual Sexual Partners written by Rose Wesche and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The prevalence of heavy alcohol use increases across adolescence and young adulthood, creating risks for health and development. Social relationships, including friendships and romantic and sexual relationships, may influence adolescent and young adult alcohol use. Understanding diverse social influences on heavy alcohol use in adolescence and young adulthood is important for preventing heavy alcohol use and its associated negative consequences. In this dissertation, I examined how diverse social relationships are associated with heavy alcohol use during adolescence and young adulthood. By incorporating multiple relationships and exploring multiple mechanisms of social influence, this dissertation advances understanding of both who matters for heavy alcohol use in adolescence/young adulthood, and how those individuals matter.In Paper 1, I used data from PROSPER to examine the unique associations of close others frequency of drunkenness, unstructured socializing, and alcohol-related attitudes with adolescents (ages 13-18) own frequency of drunkenness. I distinguished between the contributions of romantic partners, friends, and romantic partners friends in order to determine whether these potential sources of influence have unique associations with drunkenness. When examined separately, close others frequency of drunkenness, alcohol-related attitudes, and unstructured socializing each predicted adolescents own frequency of drunkenness. However, in a combined model, only friends frequency of drunkenness contributed independently to adolescents frequency of drunkenness. Furthermore, unstructured socializing with friends predicted increased frequency of drunkenness as adolescents aged. In Paper 2, I assessed how romantic partners binge drinking and negative alcohol-related consequences are associated with changes in young adults (ages 18-24 at baseline) own binge drinking using data from Add Health. I also explored whether relationship type (dating, cohabiting, or married) moderated these associations. Young adults increased their binge drinking frequency over six years if their partner binge drank more frequently at baseline. In addition, individuals increased their binge drinking frequency if their partners experienced more negative alcohol-related consequences at baseline; however, this association was no longer significant after controlling for additional variables. None of the associations measured differed by relationship type.In Paper 3, I used data from the University Life Study to examine how sexual behavior with committed romantic and casual sexual partners, and with and without heavy alcohol use, is associated with daily fluctuations in college students affect. Sexual behavior was associated with increases in positive affect and decreases in negative affect. These improvements in affect did not differ according to heavy alcohol use, sexual partner type, or interactions of these variables with each other or with semester in college.Overall, the results of this dissertation highlight the importance of friends in determining adolescents heavy alcohol use and the importance of romantic/sexual partners in determining young adults heavy alcohol use. The mechanisms of social influence on heavy alcohol use differ between friendships and romantic relationships and across developmental stages. Findings suggest that prevention strategies may differ when addressing friends versus romantic partners potential influences on heavy alcohol use.

Download or read book Young Adult Drinking Styles written by Dominic Conroy and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-11-30 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together cutting-edge contemporary research and discussion concerning drinking practices among young adults (individuals aged approximately 18-30 years old). Its chapters showcase an interdisciplinary range of perspectives from psychology, sociology, criminology, geography, public health and social policy. The contributors address themes including how identity becomes involved in young adult drinking practices; issues relating to the non-consumption of alcohol within friendship groups; and the role of social context, religious and ethnic orientation, gender identity, and social media use. In doing so, they highlight changing trends in alcohol consumption among young people, which have seen notably fewer young adults consuming alcohol over the last two decades. In acknowledging the complex nature of drinking styles among young adults, the contributors to this collection eschew traditional understandings of young adult drinking which can pathologise and generalise. They advocate instead for an inclusive approach, as demonstrated in the wide range of disciplinary backgrounds, cultural perspectives, methods and international settings represented in this book, in order to better understand the economic, socio-cultural and pharmacological crossroads at which we now stand. This book will appeal in particular to researchers, theorists, practitioners and policy makers working in the alcohol and drugs field, public health and health psychology, in addition to students and researchers from across the social sciences.

Download or read book Exploring the Relationship Between Peer Influence and Anxiety Among College Students written by Kelly Huppert and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of the current study was to explore the relationship between peer influence and anxiety in young adults, specifically college students. Motivation to drink alcohol scales were used to represent the potential for risky behavior as a result of peer influence and anxiety, both alone and combined. Forty-one (N = 41) participants were recruited from undergraduate courses at Southern Connecticut State University (SCSU) in the Bachelor of Social Work program and completed three self-report questionnaires. A Spearman rho Correlation was calculated to determine a relationship between the variables. Results concluded an insignificant correlation between anxiety and peer influence and anxiety and drinking motives across all participants and when sorting for age, education level, and housing situation. A significant correlation was found between susceptibility to peer pressure and drinking motives implying individual’s susceptibility to peer influence is positively correlated with their motives to drink alcohol. More research is needed to determine the type of relationship between experiences of, or susceptibility to peer influence and specific anxieties.

Download or read book Social Anxiety and Alcohol related Problems written by Frances Rekrut and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A preponderance of research has explored the relationship between social anxiety and alcohol-related problems in college students often with a focus on the role of motivation for drinking, consumption levels, and alcohol-related outcome expectancies as factors in the relationship. Yet, to date, very limited research has explored whether co-morbidity between social anxiety and alcohol-related problems persist in older, post-college young adults or whether the factors that influence that relationship in college students persist in a post-college environment. The current study measured social anxiety, alcohol consumption, motives, expectations, related problems, and convivial drinking events in a sample of college students (18-22 year old) and post-college young adults (26-35 years old) as well as explored whether a unified model of the relationship could be found in either or both groups. Results indicated greater social anxiety in the college aged group and few differences in alcohol-related factors between groups. No relationship between social anxiety and alcohol-related problems was found in the college student group, while in the post-college young adult group, coping motives served as a suppressor to that relationship with gender moderating that mediation. Exploratory analysis revealed when controlling for age, gender moderated the relationship between social anxiety and alcohol-related problems through coping motives. These results may provide further evidence of the complexity of the relationship between social anxiety and alcohol-related problems as well as the importance of accounting for other factors, such as gender and age, when conceptualizing risk and treatment.

Download or read book Exploring Personal Values Attitudes Perceived Injunctive and Descriptive Norms and Intrapersonal Value attitude Relationships in Relation to Alcohol Use and Alcohol related Problems Among College Students written by Meg Elizabeth Sheppard and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Loneliness Alcohol and Marijuana Use Among Male College Students written by Man-Ching Yeh and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Identification of College Students Recreational Networks and the Temporal Association with Drinking and Hooking up written by Brea Burger and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For young adults, alcohol use and sexual behavior are imbedded in a particular form of social network: the people whom they engage in a variety of activities with over a weekend, referred to as a recreational network. Little attention has been paid to examining these recreational networks in previous research. The current study attempts to fill this gap. The first aim of the present study was to examine the heterogeneity in network characteristics associated with drinking and hooking-up sexual behavior among undergraduate college students. The second aim was to explore the temporal changes that occur over a weekend within these recreational networks and their association with drinking and hooking-up. From a behavior change perspective, the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) suggests that people's social relationships can shape their behavior through norms. Therefore, this theory along with a social network perspective were combined to explain why students may be drinking and hooking-up in distinct recreational networks over the weekend. In the spring, summer, and fall semesters of 2012, 435 college students completed the HUDSoN (Hooking Up and Drinking Social Network) Questionnaire on consecutive days during a weekend. The HUDSoN includes: 1) questions on hooking-up and drinking behavior and 2) a social network inventory that examines with whom students are hanging out, characteristics of those individuals, and the multi-dimensional relationships among network members. To achieve the first aim, latent class analysis (LCA) was used to identify recreational network profiles using data from Friday night. Six network indicators were used in the LCA model: 1) size, 2) gender diversity, 3) drinking buddies in the network, 4) activities engaged in by each network member, 5) level of trust within the network, and 6) age of network members. Hooking-up and drinking behavior were then added to the LCA model as covariates. To achieve the second aim, latent transition analysis (LTA) was used to explore the temporal changes that occur within college students' recreational networks from Thursday to Friday night using the same six network indicators. Hooking-up and drinking behavior were then added to the LTA model as covariates to examine whether these behaviors are associated with movement between the network classes. As a result of the LCA three distinct network classes were identified: 1) Risky Partiers (26.7%), 2) Restrictive Partiers (34.0%), and 3) Restrictive Non-Partiers (39.3%). Alcohol consumption and hooking-up were associated with membership into network class. Students who consumed alcohol were most likely to be Risky Partiers and less likely to be Restrictive Partiers in comparison to Restrictive Non-Partiers. Students who hooked-up were most likely to be Risky Partiers or Restrictive Partiers compared to Restrictive Non-Partiers. As a result of the LTA model four distinct network profiles were identified: 1) Risky Partiers (22.9%, 25.8%), 2) Restrictive Partiers (28.3%, 44.8%), 3) Inclusive Non-Partiers (28.8%, 3.0%), and 4) Restrictive Non-Partiers (19.9%, 26.3%). Alcohol consumption and hooking-up were associated with movement between the recreational network classes from Thursday to Friday night Drinking was associated with an increased likelihood of students transitioning to Risky Partiers from Thursday to Friday night, whereas hooking-up behavior was only associated with Inclusive Non-Partiers transitioning to Risky Partiers.Findings from this study suggest that students drink and engage in sexual behavior in different ways depending on their recreational networks. These findings have potential implications for interventions to decrease risky alcohol and sexual behaviors targeting the type of recreational networks in which undergraduate students choose to embed themselves.

Download or read book College Student Alcohol Use and Abuse written by Denisha Antoinette Champion and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A possible theoretical construct to lend additional explanation for problematic drinking is the Health Belief Model (Rosenstock, 1966). Thus, the purpose of this study is to explore the relationships among social norms, health beliefs, and problematic drinking among college students. It is possible that personal health beliefs may influence students' decisions about drinking, in addition to their perceptions about how much and how often their peers consume alcohol. It is important to research a health theory that is designed to understand individual behavioral choices based on how they impact health and the possibility that this extends and mediates the already established relationship between social norms theory and problematic drinking behavior."--Abstract from author supplied metadata.

Download or read book Self efficacy and Drinking with Friends written by Staci Jean Wendt and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent studies have documented an alarming rate of alcohol use in Japan (Eisenback-Stangl et al., 2005; Milne, 2003; Shimizu, 2000). Indeed, permissive social and cultural norms for alcohol use exist within Japanese culture (Shimizu, 1990, 2000). Japanese college-students may be at further risk due to their developmental time period, where increases in alcohol use are typically seen. Furthermore, drinking habits formed during this time period may be difficult to alter later in life (Frone, 2003). Thus, social, developmental, and cultural factors exist to influence drinking among Japanese college students. The purpose of the current study was to investigate the drinking behaviors of Japanese college students and possible proximal predictors of use. Specifically, given the importance of social relationships and interactions to interdependent cultures, such as Japan, the occurrence of negative social interactions may be influential in predicting subsequent drinking, as individuals may increase drinking in order to adhere to the social norms and to make amends. Hypothesis testing confirmed a significant and positive relationship between negative social events and drinking with others. Furthermore, the expected physical, social and emotional outcomes of alcohol consumption (alcohol outcome expectancies) have been shown to predict alcohol use among U.S. samples (e.g., Goldman, 1994), however, daily fluctuations in the desirability of alcohol outcome expectancies has not been previously investigated in a Japanese sample. Given the importance of fluctuations in desirability of alcohol outcome expectancies among U.S. samples (Armeli et al., 2005), this dissertation investigated daily fluctuations in the desirability of expected outcomes and alcohol use. Support for this relationship was found; on days with individuals experienced increases in the desirability of alcohol outcome expectancies, individuals drank more with others. Support for the hypothesis that increases in daily negative social events would predict increases in the desirability of alcohol outcome expectancies was not found. Finally, this dissertation investigated two types of self-efficacy (drinking refusal self-efficacy and social self-efficacy) as stable factors of drinking. Drinking refusal self-efficacy significantly and negatively predicted drinking with others; marginal support for drinking refusal self-efficacy as a moderator of the relationship between negative social events and drinking with others was found. Social self-efficacy significantly and positively predicted drinking with others. No support was found for social self-efficacy as a moderating variable in the relationship between negative social events and drinking with others. In sum, using data that was previously collected via daily process methodology, this dissertation investigated the relationships between daily negative social interactions, daily desirability of alcohol outcome expectancies, and drinking refusal and social self-efficacy as moderators of alcohol consumption. Support was found for five of the seven hypothesized relationships.

Download or read book International Journal of Indian Psychology Volume 6 Issue 1 No 1 written by IJIP.IN and published by RED'SHINE Publication. Pvt. Ltd. This book was released on 2018-07-23 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Social Anxiety and Problematic Alcohol Use Among College Students written by Ellen Cecilie Jorstad-Stein and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social anxiety disorder (SAD) and alcohol use disorders (AUDs; i.e., alcohol dependence, alcohol abuse) are highly prevalent and potentially debilitating. They also commonly co-occur, and when they do, their combined effect may be even more devastating. The onset of SAD most commonly precedes the onset of AUDs, suggesting that SAD may be a marker or risk factor for the onset of these other disorders. Previous research has not sufficiently examined the mechanisms involved in the development of AUDs, and longitudinal research is lacking. The current study examined mechanisms related to the development of AUDs among incoming college freshman students at two large universities in the United States. Incoming freshmen are at higher risk for developing symptoms consistent with SAD, particularly during their first semester, and they may be more likely to cope with their symptoms of anxiety by drinking alcohol. The current study aimed to explicate the relationship between social anxiety and alcohol consumption in college freshmen. Baseline data collection occurred late in the summer after registration for the Fall semester or early in the Fall semester. Follow-up data collection occurred later in the Fall semester. It was expected that social anxiety, the quantity and frequency of drinking alcohol (including frequency of intoxication), and alcohol-related problems would increase among the freshmen over the course of the fall semester. Additionally, several relationships among the variables being examined were hypothesized. Drinking motives, symptoms of depression, and quality of life were expected to mediate the relationship between social anxiety and the drinking outcome variables. In addition, expectancies about alcohol consumption were expected to moderate the mediated relationship. However, there were no increases in social anxiety, alcohol consumption, or alcohol-related problems between baseline and follow-up. There were few hypothesized relationships found, although there was a positive relationship between social anxiety and negative alcohol expectancies and a negative relationship between social anxiety and quality of life. Model testing generated one promising model in which the relationship of positive expectancies regarding alcohol use to alcohol use and problems was mediated by coping with anxiety drinking motives. In particular, the main effect of positive expectancies of alcohol and coping with anxiety drinking motives generated a medium effect whereas the other relationships generated small to medium effects. Clinical implications and limitations of the current study are discussed.

Download or read book The Effects of Sleep Problems and Depression on Alcohol related Negative Consequences Among College Students written by Amanda Wattenmaker McGann and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Previous literature provides an overview of the multiple relationships between alcohol use, protective behavioral strategies (PBS), alcohol-related negative consequences, depression, and sleep problems among college students, as well as differences by individual level characteristics, such as age, gender, and race/ethnicity. Several studies have found that specific demographic groups of students are more likely to reach a higher blood alcohol content (BAC) when 0́−partying0́+ or socializing (Turner, Bauerle, & Shu, 2004; Crotty, 2011). A variety of studies have also confirmed the positive relationship between high blood alcohol content and experiencing alcohol-related negative consequences (Turner, et al., 2004; Martens, Taylor, Damann, Page, Mowry, & Cimini, 2004; Borden, Martens, McBride, Sheline, Bloch, & Dude, 2011; Crotty, 2011). Additional studies have explored the role that protective behaviors play in the alcohol consumption-negative consequences relationship (Martens et al., 2004; Borden et al., 2011; Haines, Barker, & Rice, 2006; Martens, Martin, Littlefield, Murphy, & Cimini, 2011). These studies conclude that the frequency of protective behavior use and the number of these behaviors that are used when consuming alcohol are associated with the likelihood of a student experiencing negative consequences. Specifically, the negative relationship between protective behavior use and likelihood of experiencing negative consequences as a result of binge drinking is stronger for students who rarely use protective behaviors (Martens et al., 2004). Recent studies have also explored the role that depressive symptoms play in a model with alcohol use and alcohol-related negative consequences. The prevalence of college students who were diagnosed with depression in the last school year presents a great need to study its relationship with these constructs. Students with poor mental health or depression are also more likely to experience alcohol-related negative consequences (Weitzman, 2004), and there is a direct association between depressive symptoms and negative consequences, but not necessarily between alcohol use and depressive symptoms (Vickers, Patten, Bronars, Lane, Stevens, Croghan, Schroeder, & Clark, 2004). One study also suggests that protective behaviors partially mediate the relationship between depressive symptoms and negative consequences (Martens, Martin, Hatchett, Fowler, Fleming, Karakashian, & Cimini, 2008). Further, students with depressive symptoms who use protective behaviors drink less and experience fewer negative consequences, as compared to students without depressive symptoms who use protective behaviors (LaBrie, Kenney, Lac, Garcia, & Ferraiolo, 2009). Sleeping problems play an important role in the relationship between alcohol consumption and alcohol-related negative consequences. Poorer global sleep quality is associated with alcohol-related negative consequences after controlling for alcohol use. Further, among heavier drinkers, those with poorer sleep quality experienced greater levels of negative consequences than those who had better sleep quality (Kenney, LaBrie, Hummer, & Pham, 2012). The purpose of this study was to examine the relationships between alcohol use measured by estimated Blood Alcohol Content (eBAC), PBS, depression, and sleep problems, as they explain the variance of alcohol-related negative consequences using the spring 2009 national aggregate data set of the American College Health Association National College Health Assessment (ACHA-NCHA). This dataset was comprised of a random sample of undergraduate and graduate students from 117 U.S. colleges and universities (n=53,850). Reliability analyses, confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) and structural equation modeling (SEM) were used for model specification and evaluation. Model fit indices for the current study indicate that the model and the data in this study are a good fit, demonstrated by RM.S.EA= .044, 90% CI (.044, .044) and SRMR= .066. Findings suggest that an additive effect of eBAC, PBS, depression, sleep problems, and certain demographics explain 39% of the variance in alcohol-related negative consequences and greatly impact the amount of harm that college students may experience as a result of their alcohol use. Results from the current study may assist clinicians and health educators who want to improve the probability that they will be able help reduce negative consequences among college students when they drink alcohol. These staff may engage students in a conversation about risk reduction (e.g. one on one consults, campus-wide media campaign) and also provide support for conducting brief screenings about alcohol so that clinicians may be more effective in helping students to reduce alcohol-related negative consequences. The results from this study may also assist researchers in finding more relationships that account for some of the unexplained variance in this study. Interpreting these predictive relationships are important to the way that students are screened for alcohol problems on college campuses, as well as decisions that college students make about alcohol in the greater context of healthy lifestyle decisions. Future research could include repeating the analysis with each race/ethnicity separated out instead of as a dichotomous variable (white/non-white), conducting a similar analysis with each negative consequence instead of as a scale, developing a more complete sleep problems scale within the ACHA-NCHA with improved reliability, and a further investigation into the positive correlation between sleep problems and depression in order to explore other variables that mediate the relationship between depression and sleep problems among college students.

Download or read book An Integration of Friendship and Social Support written by Vicki B. Veroff and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Social Experience Depression and Alcohol Abuse in College Age Females written by Ann Cooper and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Past research has explored social experience in relation to depression among college females. Other studies have investigated the relationship between social experience and alcohol use among college students. However, there is a lack of research on the relationship among all the three variables, social experience, depression, and alcohol use, in female college students. In the present study, 132 traditional age female college students completed a Brief Social Experience Rating Scale, the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), and the Alcohol Use Disorder Identification Test (AUDIT). The results did not show a relationship between AUDIT scores and social experience ratings, but individuals who provided dissatisfied ratings of their social experience had higher depression scores falling into the clinical depression range on the BDI.

Download or read book The Relationships Among College Students Alcohol Use and Selected Psychological demographic Characteristics written by Lisa May Pullen and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: