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Beverly D. Schwartz; Liam P. Pellerine; Nick W. Bray; Jonathon R. Fowles; Joyla A. Furlano; Anisa Morava; Taniya S. Nagpal; Myles W. O'Brien – Journal of American College Health, 2025
Objective: Test the hypothesis that smoking, fast-food consumption, and binge drinking were negatively associated with academic performance in Canadian undergraduate students. Participants: Undergraduate students across Canada [n = 411 (335[female gender symbol]) aged: 22 ± 4 years] completed a questionnaire regarding their lifestyle behaviors and…
Descriptors: Smoking, Alcohol Abuse, Academic Achievement, Undergraduate Students
King, Eleanor R.; Willcott Benoit, Whitney; Repa, Lily M.; Garland, Sheila N. – Journal of American College Health, 2022
Objective: This study examined the prevalence and factors associated with non-medical use of prescription stimulants to promote wakefulness. Participants: We surveyed 3,160 university students aged 18-35 between June 2016 and May 2017. Method: Participants reported whether they used prescription stimulants non-medically to stay awake and completed…
Descriptors: Incidence, Drug Abuse, Stimulants, College Students
Laberge, Luc; Auclair, Julie; Busque, Marc-Antoine; Maltais, Alexandre; Élise Ledoux – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2023
The aim was to explore predictors of employment during the school year in adolescents aged 13. We report on a population-based sample of children followed-up from 5 months to this day. Parents and children answered questions on family, school, health, and work. A multinomial logistic regression was used to identify the predictors of informal and…
Descriptors: Early Adolescents, Predictor Variables, Student Employment, Time Perspective
Rawana, Jennine S.; Ames, Megan E. – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 2012
Some Aboriginal youth are at disproportionate risk of using substances and developing abuse and dependence disorders. However, not all Aboriginal youth misuse substances and limited research has examined the protective factors conferring against substance use among these youth. The present study aimed to identify protective factors related to the…
Descriptors: Intervention, Drinking, Young Adults, Adolescents
Galambos, Nancy L.; Dalton, Andrea L.; Maggs, Jennifer L. – Journal of Research on Adolescence, 2009
Daily covariation of sleep quantity and quality with affective, stressful, academic, and social experiences were observed in a sample of Canadian 17-19-year-olds in their first year of university. Participants (N = 191) completed web-based checklists for 14 consecutive days during their first semester. Multilevel models predicting sleep quantity…
Descriptors: Sleep, Drinking, Foreign Countries, College Freshmen
Galambos, Nancy L.; Albrecht, Arne K.; Jansson, S. Mikael – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2009
This study examined the nature of the relationship between adolescents' subjective age (how old they feel) and chronological age, and explored whether dating, sex, and substance use predicted increases in adolescents' subjective age across a two-year period. The participants were 570 adolescents who were interviewed when they were first ages 12-19…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Self Concept, Adolescents, Dating (Social)
Ostbye, Truls; Walton, Ruth E.; Steenhuis, Runa; Hodsman, Anthony B. – Canadian Journal on Aging, 2004
The objective of this study was to describe the incidence, type, risk factors, and sequelae of fractures experienced by community-dwelling elderly Canadians. Data are from the Canadian Study of Health and Aging (CSHA), a longitudinal cohort study, collected in three waves: baseline (1991), wave 2 (1996), and wave 3 (2001). In CSHA-2 (1996),…
Descriptors: Older Adults, Risk, Gender Differences, Predictor Variables

Smart, Reginald G.; Walsh, Gordon W. – Adolescence, 1993
Interviewed 145 adolescent street youth in Toronto, Canada, to examine association of depression with alcohol and drug use and related problems, social supports, self-esteem, family background, and alcohol and drug use among family members. Results indicated that best predictors of depression among street youth were self-esteem and length of time…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Depression (Psychology), Drinking, Drug Use

Vingilis, Evelyn; Wade, Terrance J.; Adlaf, Edward – Journal of Adolescence, 1998
Data from a randomly selected sample of 840 Ontario students were used to examine factors that affect self-rated physical health. Analyses focused on demographics, family structure, financial situation, child-parent relationship, school achievement, self-esteem, alcohol, tobacco, and cannabis use as factors which directly and indirectly influence…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Age Differences, Demography

Grobe, Cary; Campbell, Elaine – Journal of Alcohol and Drug Education, 1990
Attempted to discover patterns of alcohol, drug, and tobacco use among public school children in New Brunswick using Provincial School Drug Survey (PSDS), an existing large-scale assessment. Recoded variables in PSDS dataset to derive profiles of typical tobacco, cannabis, and alcohol users. Found increase in predictive accuracy of regression…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Behavior Patterns, Cocaine