Validation of Brief Young Adult Alcohol Consequences Questionnaire (B-YAACQ): Portuguese Version

2014 ◽  
Vol 17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joaquim A. Ferreira ◽  
Jorge S. Martins ◽  
Mariana S. Coelho ◽  
Christopher W. Kahler
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Young Adult ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Drinking Alcohol ◽  
Internal Reliability ◽  
Portuguese Version ◽  
R And D ◽  
Sum Score ◽  
The University

AbstractExtant literature suggests that Portuguese college students frequently drinking alcohol and experience a variety of alcohol-related negative consequences. However, to our knowledge, there is no validated measure to assess negative consequences of drinking alcohol for college students in Portugal. This article describes a validation of the Portuguese version of the Brief Young Adult Alcohol Consequences Questionnaire. Originally developed by Kahler, Strong, and Read (2005), this 24-item questionnaire is a widely used self-report measure with strong psychometric properties and validity for the evaluation of the negative consequences of drinking in college students. We collected data from 620 students at the University of Coimbra (Portugal). Participants completed (a) a background questionnaire, (b) the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT), (c) the Daily Drinking Questionnaire - Revised (DDQ-R), and (d) the Brief Young Adult Alcohol Consequences Questionnaire (B-YAACQ) translated into Portuguese as part of this study. Analyses showed that items fit a unidimensional Rasch model well with items infit statistics raging from .82 to 1.27, supporting using all items to create a total sum score of the Portuguese version of the B-YAACQ. The Portuguese version of the B-YAACQ showed adequate internal reliability (α = .87) and concurrent validity. Results support its use and integration in research on interventions targeted to reduce adverse effects associated with excessive drinking among Portuguese college students.

scholarly journals Assessment of knowledge and awareness of “sustainability” initiatives among college students

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Israel Msengi ◽  
Raymond Doe ◽  
Twana Wilson ◽  
Danny Fowler ◽  
Chelsey Wigginton ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
The United States ◽  
Waste Recycling ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Southeastern Part ◽  
Campus Sustainability ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
Alternative Power ◽  
Sustainability Initiatives ◽  
The University

Campus sustainability is essential for any university. Campus sustainability denotes the potential of the university to develop new ideas regarding sustainability through research, teaching, and practices. It necessitates improved academic infrastructures, setting right faculty priorities and practices that ensure that the university community is aware of sustainable practices, and that its practices reflect sustainability. This study assesses college students' knowledge and awareness of sustainability issues. After IRB approval, data were collected using the campus sustainability questionnaire. Students from a university in the southeastern part of Texas in the United States were selected and asked to participate in the study voluntarily by answering a self-report questionnaire. Findings indicate that only a minority of the students knew what sustainability was, but 95.8% indicated it was important. Although the university has committed to climate and sustainability agreements, majority of the students were not aware of it and only about 17% knew that the University's Strategic Plan has a sustainability component. Nearly 36% of the students reported receiving information about sustainability during their campus orientation. In terms of recycling, majority of the students indicated unawareness of e-waste recycling on campus; however, more than 70% reported that the library limited free printing in computer labs. More than half of the students also indicated that sustainability issues were not infused into curriculum courses or programs, and they had no knowledge of any alternative power source for the university. We concluded that a majority of the students were not conversant with sustainability issues and were largely unaware of campus sustainability initiatives. We recommended more effort to increase sustainability initiatives on campus by involving faculty, staff, and students in such endeavors. Educational programs should incorporate sustainability into their curriculum to increase students' knowledge and consciousness regarding these issues.

scholarly journals Protective Behavioral Strategies and Hazardous Drinking Among College Students: The Moderating Role of Psychological Distress

2018 ◽  
Vol 48 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 3-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hallie R. Jordan ◽  
Margo C. Villarosa-Hurlocker ◽  
Asia L. Ashley ◽  
Michael B. Madson
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Psychological Distress ◽  
Harm Reduction ◽  
Mental Health Problems ◽  
Hazardous Drinking ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Drinking Patterns ◽  
Behavioral Strategies ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Protective Behavioral Strategies

There is increasing evidence that mental health problems may attenuate the relationship between protective behavioral strategies (PBS) and alcohol outcomes. However, psychological distress may also affect these relationships. Further, it appears that different types of PBS have differential relationships with alcohol outcomes. The current study examined the degree to which psychological distress moderated the associations PBS subtypes had with hazardous drinking and alcohol-related negative consequences. Participants were 632 traditional-age undergraduate students ( M = 20.04, standard deviation = 1.48) who had consumed alcohol within the past 30 days and completed online self-report measures designed to assess PBS use, level of psychological distress, hazardous drinking patterns, and alcohol-related negative consequences. Serious harm reduction PBS were associated with less hazardous drinking and less alcohol-related negative consequences, and these associations were strengthened for those experiencing greater psychological distress. Controlled consumption PBS were associated with less hazardous drinking, but this association was not moderated by psychological distress. These findings highlight the potential benefit of teaching serious harm reduction PBS to college students experiencing elevated levels of psychological distress.

scholarly journals Testing the MUSIC Model of Motivation Theory: Relationships Between Students’ Perceptions, Engagement, and Overall Ratings

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Brett D. Jones
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
The Self ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Motivation Theory ◽  
College Courses ◽  
Motivational Strategies ◽  
Internal Reliability ◽  
Music Model ◽  
Time Point

The purposes of this study were to investigate the extent to which students’ course perceptions of the components of the MUSIC Model of Motivation (Jones, 2009, 2018) were related to their engagement in college courses and their instructor and course ratings. Participants included 285 college students who completed questionnaires once or twice during a course. The self-report scales demonstrated high internal reliability. The findings indicate that students’ MUSIC perceptions (i.e., perceptions of empowerment, usefulness, success, interest, and caring) were significantly related to their effort in the course, both when the variables were assessed at the same time point and when their effort was assessed at a later time point. These findings provide empirical evidence for relationships proposed in the MUSIC Model of Motivation theory. Students’ MUSIC perceptions were also related to their instructor and course ratings, both when the variables were assessed at the same time point and when their instructor and course ratings were assessed at a later time point. These findings are important for instructors because students’ MUSIC perceptions can be linked directly to categories of motivational strategies that can be used by instructors as they design instruction.

#TextMeetsTech

2020 ◽  
pp. 233-251
Author(s):  
Katie Schrodt ◽  
Erin R. FitzPatrick ◽  
Kim Reddig ◽  
Emily Paine Smith ◽  
Jennifer Grow
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
High School ◽  
Young Adult ◽  
Middle School Teachers ◽  
Lesson Plan ◽  
Language And Literacy ◽  
Young Adult Novel ◽  
University Course ◽  
The University ◽  
User Friendly

This chapter addresses the need to make time and space for transliteracy practices in the classroom. University pre-service teachers are used as the primary example as the chapter documents how these students made meaning across a range of platforms, while reading the acclaimed young adult novel The Hate U Give. The university course, titled Language and Literacy, focuses on methods of literacy instruction in the classroom. A lesson plan framework is included in the chapter that is especially user friendly for educator preparation classrooms as well as high school and middle school teachers. The chapter explores the experiences of the college students while reading The Hate U Give, while detailing how the students created meaning through a variety of traditional and modern teaching practices.

The Tether to Home, University Connectedness, and the Appalachian Student

2016 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 139-160 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steffen P. Wilson ◽  
Jonathan S. Gore ◽  
Amanda Renfro ◽  
Marion Blake ◽  
Eric Muncie ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Grade Point Average ◽  
Student Persistence ◽  
Lower Grade ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Fear Of Success ◽  
Grade Point ◽  
Family Ties ◽  
Large Families ◽  
The University

The purpose of the studies reported here was to test the hypothesis that college students from cultures that emphasize strong family ties experience familial tethering or a pull to remain connected to home, which then has negative consequences on the student’s ability to connect to and succeed at the university. In Study 1, it was found that students of Appalachian origin, women, and students from large families were more likely to report pressure from their families to return home frequently and less connection to and more isolation from the university. An expanded assessment of familial tethering which measured social, externalized, and ecological tethering was investigated in Study 2. It was found that Appalachian students experienced more externalized tethering. Women and individuals from larger families experienced more social tethering. Externalized tethering was found to be associated with a lower grade point average, while there were no negative correlates of social tethering. The most negative student outcomes including lower grade point average and high levels of fear of success and isolation was found in students who experienced ecological tethering. Implications for student persistence and retention, especially that of college students experiencing ecological tethering, are discussed.

scholarly journals Psychometric Properties of the Suicide Stroop Task in a Chinese College Population

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lu Niu ◽  
Xia Feng ◽  
Zhouxin Jia ◽  
Yu Yu ◽  
Liang Zhou
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Psychometric Properties ◽  
Stroop Task ◽  
Intraclass Correlation ◽  
Correlation Coefficients ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Time Data ◽  
Internal Reliability ◽  
Chinese College Students ◽  
College Population

ObjectiveThis study aimed to test the psychometric properties of the suicide stroop task in a Chinese college population.MethodsCollege students (n = 121) who were in the 1st–4th grade, fluent in Chinese, and without color blindness were recruited from a university in Guangzhou, China from September to December 2019. Participants were administered the suicide stroop task at baseline and 1-month follow-up.ResultsThe suicide stroop task showed excellent internal reliability (Cronbach’s α ranged from 0.940 to 0.953). However, the suicide stroop task did not reveal suicide-related attentional biases among current suicide ideators and was not significantly associated with the severity of suicidal ideation, depression, hopelessness, nor anhedonia (all p values > 0.05), indicating a lack of concurrent validity for the task. Additionally, the two-time data of interference scores could not generate intraclass correlation coefficients (ICCs) due to a negative average covariance among data, which indicated poor test–retest consistency for the task.ConclusionThe results of this study did not support the use of the suicide stroop task on the identification of suicidal risk among Chinese college students. It is crucial to assess the psychometric properties of behavioral measures rigorously as self-report measures before large applications in clinical and community settings.

Measuring Drinking Patterns among College Students

1992 ◽  
Vol 70 (1) ◽  
pp. 231-238 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janice G. Williams ◽  
Amanda Morrice
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Alcohol Use ◽  
Negative Affect ◽  
Internal Consistency ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Drinking Patterns ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Good Internal Consistency ◽  
Positive Expectancies ◽  
Report Measure

Alcohol use among college students is of interest to clinicians and researchers. The results of such studies depend on the quality and nature of the measures used. The literature includes a wide variety of operational definitions of drinking patterns, making difficult comparisons across studies. For 109 men and 83 women attending college this paper provides data on the Drinking Practices Questionnaire, a self-report measure of drinking patterns designed specifically for use with college students. The three subscales, Negative Affect, Positive Expectancies, and Negative Consequences, have good internal consistency reliabilities, and scores correlate significantly with measures of problems associated with alcohol use. Appropriate uses of the measure are discussed.

The “Imaginary Audience,” Self-Handicapping, and Drinking Patterns among College Students

1996 ◽  
Vol 79 (3) ◽  
pp. 783-786 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert L. Montgomery ◽  
Frances M. Haemmerlie ◽  
Shannon Zoellner
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Drinking Patterns ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Drinking Alcohol ◽  
Imaginary Audience

A study of 80 midwestern college students indicated that higher scores on Lapsley's 1990 Imaginary Audience scale were associated with lower grades, greater use of immature self-handicapping strategies, and several negative consequences associated with drinking alcohol.

Determining Emotional Tone and Verbal Behavior in Patients With Tinnitus and Hyperacusis: An Exploratory Mixed-Methods Study

2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 660-672
Author(s):  
Suzanne H. Kimball ◽  
Toby Hamilton ◽  
Erin Benear ◽  
Jonathan Baldwin
Keyword(s):  
Mixed Methods ◽  
Verbal Behavior ◽  
Coping Strategies ◽  
Mixed Methods Study ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Anxiety And Depression ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Emotional Tone ◽  
Explanatory Mixed Methods ◽  
Quantitative Results

Purpose The purpose of this study was to evaluate the emotional tone and verbal behavior of social media users who self-identified as having tinnitus and/or hyperacusis that caused self-described negative consequences on daily life or health. Research Design and Method An explanatory mixed-methods design was utilized. Two hundred “initial” and 200 “reply” Facebook posts were collected from members of a tinnitus group and a hyperacusis group. Data were analyzed via the LIWC 2015 software program and compared to typical bloggers. As this was an explanatory mixed-methods study, we used qualitative thematic analyses to explain, interpret, and illustrate the quantitative results. Results Overall, quantitative results indicated lower overall emotional tone for all categories (tinnitus and hyperacusis, initial and reply), which was mostly influenced by higher negative emotion. Higher levels of authenticity or truth were found in the hyperacusis sample but not in the tinnitus sample. Lower levels of clout (social standing) were indicated in all groups, and a lower level of analytical thinking style (concepts and complex categories rather than narratives) was found in the hyperacusis sample. Additional analysis of the language indicated higher levels of sadness and anxiety in all groups and lower levels of anger, particularly for initial replies. These data support prior findings indicating higher levels of anxiety and depression in this patient population based on the actual words in blog posts and not from self-report questionnaires. Qualitative results identified 3 major themes from both the tinnitus and hyperacusis texts: suffering, negative emotional tone, and coping strategies. Conclusions Results from this study suggest support for the predominant clinical view that patients with tinnitus and hyperacusis have higher levels of anxiety and depression than the general population. The extent of the suffering described and patterns of coping strategies suggest clinical practice patterns and the need for research in implementing improved practice plans.

Psychometrische Charakteristika der deutschen Version des Young Adult Self-Report (YASR)

2011 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 75-84 ◽  
Author(s):  
Urska Agrez ◽  
Christa Winkler Metzke ◽  
Hans-Christoph Steinhausen
Keyword(s):  
Young Adult ◽  
Self Report

Zusammenfassung. Der Young Adult Self-Report (YASR) erfasst behaviorale und emotionale Symptome bei jungen Erwachsenen im Alter von 18 bis 30 Jahre. Das Hauptziel der vorliegenden Studie war die Überprüfung der psychometrischen Qualität der deutschen Version des YASR auf der Basis von Daten aus einer großen epidemiologischen Stichprobe junger Erwachsener in der Schweiz (N = 951; Durchschnittsalter = 19.8, SD = 1.6; 56.3% Frauen). Die syndromale Struktur der amerikanischen Originalversion wurde in den Stichprobendaten mittels konfirmatorischer Faktorenanalyse gut repliziert. Mit Ausnahme der Skala Schizoid/zwanghaftes Denken sind alle Skalen für Forschungszwecke ausreichend zuverlässig. Aufgrund mangelnder interner Konsistenz einzelner Skalen müssen individuelle Testergebnisse mit Vorsicht interpretiert werden.

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