scholarly journals The Personality Factors Predictors in Substance Abuse Among Iranian College Students

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Farzad Jalilian ◽  
Behzad Karami Matin ◽  
Mohammad Ahmadpanah ◽  
Mari Ataee ◽  
Mehdi Mirzaei Alavijeh ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Substance Abuse ◽  
Personality Factors

Exploring the Nexus between Online Alcohol Posters and Alcohol Drinking among Kenya’s Higher Vocational College students

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph Malechwanzi
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
College Students ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Substance Abuse ◽  
Alcohol Drinking ◽  
Alcoholic Beverage ◽  
Vocational College ◽  
Drinking Habits ◽  
Higher Vocational College ◽  
Unrestricted Access

Alcohol drinking among young people is a major global public health concern. The situation has been aggravated further by the advent of the internet and subsequent development of social media as a tool for online alcohol marketing. Measures that aim at reducing substance abuse is a stride towards “2030 Agenda” for sustainable development goal number 3 set by the United Nation General Assembly. In this goal, attention is not only drawn to health and wellbeing but also to prevention and treatment of substance abuse. This descriptive study sought to find out the prevalence of alcohol advertisements on social media and its possible influence on alcohol drinking among Kenya’s higher vocational college students. Based on a field survey conducted in Nairobi (n=209), this study established that there was heavy presence of alcohol advertisements on social media scene in Kenya. Although statistically, there was huge gender disparity, the final results showed that there was significant association between alcohol ads on social media and college student’s possible alcohol drinking habits. This study concludes that there was heavy presence of alcohol ads on social media, and the likelihood of youth having unrestricted access to the alcoholic beverage products. This could have a far-reaching implication on their alcohol drinking habits. Therefore, the study recommends the stakeholders in public health promotions to formulate policies aimed at mitigating against the challenges posed by unrestricted access to online alcohol ads by the youth in order to prevent them from being lured into early alcohol drinking by the alcoholic beverage makers.　 Keywords: Alcohol abuse; Influence; Online ads; Youth; Kenya

The Relationship Between Virtues and Personality Traits of Chinese College Students

2011 ◽  
Vol 39 (10) ◽  
pp. 1379-1385 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shou-Kuan Mu
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Personality Traits ◽  
Rating Scale ◽  
Mainland China ◽  
Emotional Stability ◽  
Personality Factors ◽  
Chinese College Students ◽  
Psychological Concept ◽  
Self Reliance ◽  
The Relationship

Many researchers agree that virtue is an important psychological concept in contemporary psychology. The main purpose in this study was to investigate the relationship between virtues and the personality traits of college students in mainland China. Participants (N = 426) completed the Chinese Virtue Adjectives Rating Scale (CVARS; Mu, 2007) and the Chinese 16PF (Zhu & Dai, 1988). The results indicated that the 16 personality factors most closely related to the virtue factors were emotional stability, dominance, liveliness, rule-consciousness, social boldness, sensitivity, vigilance, abstractedness, apprehension, self-reliance, perfectionism, and tension. Second-order factors of the 16PF most strongly related to the virtue factors were anxiety, extraversion, tough-mindedness, and independence.

Moral Reasoning and Consistency of Belief and Behavior: Decisions about Substance Abuse

2001 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 367-384 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcia M. Abide ◽  
Herbert C. Richards ◽  
Shula G. Ramsay
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Substance Abuse ◽  
Drug Use ◽  
Illicit Drugs ◽  
Defining Issues Test ◽  
Personal Choice ◽  
Moral Thinking ◽  
Two Samples ◽  
Harmful Substances ◽  
And Behavior

In view of implications of Kohlberg's theory of moral development, two hypotheses were considered in two independent studies: a) individuals who consider the use of potentially harmful substances to be morally wrong will be less likely to use such substances than peers who view such activities as a personal choice; and b) compared to those who are less mature, more mature moral reasoners display more consistency between their expressed beliefs about the morality of drug use and their reports of actual drug use. Two samples of college students, 29 men and 59 women in Study 1 and 46 men and 100 women in Study 2, served as participants. All completed questionnaires about their use of tobacco, alcohol, and illicit drugs and their beliefs about the morality of using these substances. Participants in Study 2 also responded to the Defining Issues Test (DIT) to assess their level of moral thinking. Results from Study 1 supported hypothesis (a). Findings from Study 2 supported hypotheses (a) and (b).

Personality factors and styles among college students who binge eat and drink.

2009 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 140-145 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christina C. Rush ◽  
Sara J. Becker ◽  
John F. Curry
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Personality Factors

Food, Drugs, and Alcohol—A Common Temporal Pattern of Use

1983 ◽  
Vol 57 (2) ◽  
pp. 375-379 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Robert Sinnett ◽  
Brian Judd ◽  
Martha A. Olson
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Substance Abuse ◽  
Eating Disorders ◽  
Temporal Pattern ◽  
Weight Control ◽  
Control Program ◽  
Street Drugs ◽  
Drugs And Alcohol ◽  
Two Samples ◽  
Weight Control Program

Two samples of college students ( n = 42) in a weight-control program were shown to deviate from their diets in a temporal pattern found in previous studies for the abuse of street drugs and alcohol. Implications for the treatment of various types of substance abuse and eating disorders are discussed.

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