Negative affect, stress, and smoking in college students: Unique associations independent of alcohol and marijuana use

The current study was an attempt to determine the degree to which the suppression of respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA) and attentional control were influential in the ability to engage various executive processes under high and low levels of negative affect. Ninety-four college students completed the Stroop Test while heart rate was being recorded. Estimates of the suppression of RSA were calculated from each participant in response to this test. The participants then completed self-ratings of attentional control, negative affect, and executive functioning. Regression analysis indicated that individual differences in estimates of the suppression of RSA, and ratings of attentional control were associated with the ability to employ executive processes but only when self-ratings of negative affect were low. An increase in negative affect compromised the ability to employ these strategies in the majority of participants. The data also suggest that high attentional control in conjunction with attenuated estimates of RSA suppression may increase the ability to use executive processes as negative affect increases.

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College students' reported motives for marijuana use

PsycEXTRA Dataset ◽

10.1037/e545662013-170 ◽

2013 ◽

Author(s):

Kristy R. Dykema ◽

Joshua T. Nowak

Keyword(s):

College Students ◽

Marijuana Use

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Relations of social identity, perceived norms, and marijuana use in college students

PsycEXTRA Dataset ◽

10.1037/e579372013-003 ◽

2013 ◽

Author(s):

C. Neighbors ◽

D. W. Foster ◽

D. D. Walker ◽

J. R. Kilmer ◽

C. M. Lee

Keyword(s):

College Students ◽

Social Identity ◽

Marijuana Use ◽

Perceived Norms

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Religious strength of faith and marijuana use frequency predict marijuana-related impairment in college students.

Psychology of Religion and Spirituality ◽

10.1037/rel0000391 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Andrew R. Fox ◽

Jordan Skalisky ◽

Benjamin Johnson ◽

Madeline D. W. Noland ◽

Amy H. Mezulis

Keyword(s):

College Students ◽

Marijuana Use ◽

Strength Of Faith

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A longitudinal analysis of drinking motives moderating the negative affect-drinking association among college students.

Psychology of Addictive Behaviors ◽

10.1037/a0017530 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 24 (1) ◽

pp. 38-47 ◽

Cited By ~ 47

Author(s):

Stephen Armeli ◽

Tamlin S. Conner ◽

Jerry Cullum ◽

Howard Tennen

Keyword(s):

College Students ◽

Negative Affect ◽

Longitudinal Analysis ◽

Drinking Motives

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Behind Dislike: Adaptive Purposes for Undergraduates’ Negative Emotions in the Career Decision-Making Process

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su12198071 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 12 (19) ◽

pp. 8071

Author(s):

Keith A. Puffer ◽

Kris G. Pence

Keyword(s):

College Students ◽

Decision Making ◽

Negative Affect ◽

Negative Emotions ◽

Career Decision ◽

Emotional Reactions ◽

Decision Makers ◽

Decision Making Process ◽

Career Decision Making ◽

Response Options

The first career interest inventory emerged in the late 1920s. The response options for the questions in the Strong Vocational Interest Blank included ‘like’ and ‘dislike.’ Both answers are emotional reactions. Regrettably, clients within the context of vocational counseling often regard negative feelings (e.g., dislikes) as inconsequential. Yet, negative emotionality can be adaptive and feasibly assist career decision-makers. In the literature on college students’ career development and emotional functioning, there is a paucity of information about how negative emotions advance the career decision-making process and how career decision-makers apply such knowledge. Hence, a sample of undergraduates (n = 256) was recruited to ascertain imaginable adaptive career decision-making benefits from negative affect. Employing a Mixed Methods-Grounded Theory methodology, the present study tabulated the negative emotional reactions of college students to vocations that were self- or computer-reported. In addition, their answers to two investigative questions about the selection of their negative emotions were analyzed. From the data, three negative meta-emotions emerged as reactions to participants’ reported occupations; four adaptive purposes for their selected negative affect were also discovered. A theoretical framework and applicative suggestions from the findings are presented.

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Marijuana use trajectories and academic outcomes among college students

Drug and Alcohol Dependence ◽

10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2016.02.041 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 162 ◽

pp. 137-145 ◽

Cited By ~ 65

Author(s):

Cynthia K. Suerken ◽

Beth A. Reboussin ◽

Kathleen L. Egan ◽

Erin L. Sutfin ◽

Kimberly G. Wagoner ◽

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Keyword(s):

College Students ◽

Academic Outcomes ◽

Marijuana Use

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Family Incivility and Cyberbullying Perpetration Among College Students: Negative Affect as a Mediator and Dispositional Mindfulness as a Moderator

Journal of Interpersonal Violence ◽

10.1177/08862605211063000 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 088626052110630

Author(s):

Shuai Jin ◽

Miao Miao

Keyword(s):

College Students ◽

Negative Affect ◽

Longitudinal Design ◽

Mediation Effect ◽

Mechanism Study ◽

Dispositional Mindfulness ◽

Cross Sectional Survey ◽

Acting With Awareness ◽

The Relationship

Although family factors are associated with cyberbullying, few studies have investigated the relationship between family incivility and cyberbullying perpetration. The current study aimed to examine the associations between family incivility and cyberbullying perpetration among college students, and further investigate the underlying moderated mediation mechanism. Study 1 was a cross-sectional survey among 640 Chinese undergraduate students ( Mage = 20.29 years, SD = 1.38). Demographics, family incivility, cyberbullying perpetration, and negative affect were assessed. The results supported the idea that negative affect plays a role in mediating the relationship between family incivility and cyberbullying perpetration. Study 2 used a two-wave longitudinal design, aiming to examine both the mediating role of negative affect and the moderating role of dispositional mindfulness (represented through five facets—observing, describing, acting with awareness, nonjudging, and nonreacting—each of which were analyzed separately). The data were collected from 200 Chinese undergraduate and graduate students ( Mage = 22.18, SD = 2.56). Negative affect was also found to play a mediation effect in this study. Furthermore, the results found that acting with awareness and nonjudging weakened the relationship between family incivility and negative affect, whereas observing exacerbated it. Moreover, nonjudging exacerbated the relationship between negative affect and cyberbullying perpetration. The present findings indicate that negative affect may play a role in explaining the association between family incivility and cyberbullying perpetration. Furthermore, acting with awareness and nonjudging could buffer the relationship between family incivility and cyberbullying perpetration via negative affect, which provides a new insight for the prevention of and intervention on cyberbullying perpetration.

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