Raitasalo, Kirsimarja Kraus, Ludwig Bye, Elin K Karlsson, Patrik Tigerstedt, Christoffer Törrönen, Jukka Raninen, Jonas
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Addiction (Abingdon, England)
To (i) examine several factors associated with trends in heavy episodic drinking (HED) in Finland, Norway and Sweden, (ii) investigate similarities in these associations across the countries and (iii) analyse the contribution of these factors to the trend in HED and the differences across the countries. Observational study using five waves of the E...
Shell, Duane F Newman, Ian M Yuen, Lok-Wa
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Journal of American college health : J of ACH
Objective: To test if precollege drinking data gathered during an online brief intervention are associated with problems and could inform screening for campus alcohol prevention efforts. Participants: Two cohorts of incoming students (N = 5300). Method: Precollege alcohol drinking was gathered through an online preenrollment alcohol brief intervent...
Bellis, Alexandra L Swartout, Kevin M Salazar, Laura F
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Journal of American college health : J of ACH
To determine whether college men's perceptions of campus drinking norms, aggregated at the institution-level, predicted heavy episodic drinking and sexual violence perpetration. Participants: Data were collected from a sample of 1144 first-year male college freshmen enrolled at one of thirty four-year institutions in the state of Georgia. Methods: ...
Vera, Belén del Valle Pilatti, Angelina Pautassi, Ricardo Marcos
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Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
Heavy episodic drinking (HED) is highly prevalent in college students. In Argentina, there is a notable lack of longitudinal studies examining drinking trajectories. The present study identified HED trajectories in Argentinean college students during the first 3 years of college (seven waves) and examined the association between risk factors for al...
El Ansari, Walid Salam, Abdul Suominen, Sakari
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International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
The relationship between academic performance and alcohol consumption among students remains inconsistent. We assessed this relationship, controlling for sociodemographic characteristics across seven faculties at the University of Turku (1177 undergraduates). An online questionnaire assessed: seven sociodemographic characteristics (age, gender, yea...
Nooner, Kate B De Bellis, Michael D Clark, Duncan B Thompson, Wesley K Brumback, Ty
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Substance use & misuse
Background: Life events experienced during adolescence are associated with risk and resilience to heavy episodic drinking (HED; i.e. binge drinking). The current study builds on prior research using latent class analysis (LCA) to examine heterogeneity in patterns of adolescent life events at baseline to HED over the course of three years (4 timepoi...
Berg, Noora Virtanen, Pekka Bean, Christopher G. Lintonen, Tomi Nummi, Tapio Hammarström, Anne
ackground: The aim of this study is to examine the relevance of macroeconomic conditions (boom vs. recession) and own labor market status on alcohol use in youth and midlife. Method: Two Northern Swedish cohorts, born in either 1965 (boom at age 21 years) or 1973 (recession at age 21 years), included all pupils attending the last grade of compulsor...
Linden-Carmichael, Ashley N. Stamates, Amy L. Lau-Barraco, Cathy
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Substance use & misuse
Background: Simultaneous alcohol and marijuana (SAM) use, or using alcohol and marijuana in such a way that their effects overlap, is associated with negative health and behavioral outcomes. Objectives: Our study sought to fill gaps in our knowledge on this emerging public health concern by comparing SAM users and alcohol-only users on individual-l...
Davis, Samuel R Prince, Mark A Hallgren, Kevin A Johnson, Nick Stanley, Linda R Swaim, Randall C
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Psychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors
Research exploring American Indian (AI) youth drinking motives and their relation to negative outcomes is critical due to higher rates of alcohol use and early exposure to intoxication in the population. The purpose of this study is to explore classes of drinking motives as they relate to heavy episodic drinking, perceived discrimination, religious...
Testa, Maria Livingston, Jennifer A Wang, Weijun
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Violence and victims
Heavy episodic drinking (HED) and hookups increase college women's vulnerability to sexual victimization. We examined whether the effect of HED on first year college sexual victimization severity was mediated via hookups, that is, casual sexual encounters between individuals not in a relationship. We also tested the hypothesis that greater sexual l...
