Text messaging and bilingual discursive practices of college students in Puerto Rico

In this brief report, we present MMPI-2 basic validity and clinical scale data of Latino-descent persons from Puerto Rico ( n = 290), Mexico ( n = 1,920), and the United States ( n = 28). All were administered one of three Spanish translations of the MMPI-2. A review of the mean scores of these respective groups indicates similarities across all scales. Differences among these three groups, with the exception of the Mf scale (which is keyed to sex), were well within the one standard deviation band. More importantly, these findings are promising given the fact that three different translations of the MMPI-2 were applied.

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Exploring Potential Factors in Sticker Use Among Japanese Young Adults

International Journal of Virtual Communities and Social Networking ◽

10.4018/ijvcsn.2018040101 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 10 (2) ◽

pp. 1-23

Author(s):

Shogo Kato ◽

Yuuki Kato ◽

Yasuyuki Ozawa

Keyword(s):

College Students ◽

Young Adults ◽

Text Messaging ◽

Text Messages ◽

Perceived Usefulness ◽

Nonverbal Cues ◽

Potential Factors

In text-based communication, people can now use not only emoticons and emoji, but also graphical symbols called stickers. This study focused on the use of stickers in text-based communication. A questionnaire asking subjects to individually rate the perceived usefulness of 25 features of stickers was prepared and used in a survey targeting 211 Japanese college students. The authors then explored potential factors in the roles of stickers. The study revealed three potential roles of stickers: “easy transmission of subtle nuances and nonverbal cues,” “abundant and versatile expressions that can be substituted for text messages,” and “changing the topic, flow, or rationale of the interaction.” The authors examined the effects of gender and text messaging dependency on these roles. Results showed significant effects of dependency in all roles, but effects of gender were seen in only “abundant and versatile expressions that can be substituted for text messages.”

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Reducing Heavy Episodic Drinking among College Students Using a Combined Web and Interactive Text Messaging Intervention

Alcoholism Treatment Quarterly ◽

10.1080/07347324.2020.1784067 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 39 (1) ◽

pp. 82-95

Author(s):

Kathryn Chavez ◽

Tibor P. Palfai

Keyword(s):

College Students ◽

Text Messaging ◽

Heavy Episodic Drinking ◽

Interactive Text ◽

Text Messaging Intervention

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Text message content as a window into college student drinking: Development and initial validation of a dictionary of “alcohol-talk”

International Journal of Behavioral Development ◽

10.1177/0165025419889175 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 45 (1) ◽

pp. 3-10 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Michaeline Jensen ◽

Andrea M. Hussong

Keyword(s):

College Students ◽

Text Messaging ◽

Text Message ◽

Text Messages ◽

Message Content ◽

Digital Platforms ◽

Student Drinking ◽

Related Risk ◽

Prevention Studies ◽

High Risk Drinking

The ubiquity of digital communication within the high-risk drinking environment of college students raises exciting new directions for prevention research. However, we are lacking relevant constructs and tools to analyze digital platforms that serve to facilitate, discuss, and rehash alcohol use. In the current study, we introduce the construct of alcohol-talk (or the extent to which college students use alcohol-related words in text messaging exchanges) as well as introduce and validate a novel tool for measuring this construct. We describe a closed-vocabulary, dictionary-based method for assessing alcohol-talk. Analyses of 569,172 text messages from 267 college students indicate that this method produces a reliable and valid measure that correlates as expected with self-reported alcohol and related risk constructs. We discuss the potential utility of this method for prevention studies.

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