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Li Deng; Chanam Lee; Sungmin Lee; Yizhen Ding; Yang Song; Galen Newman – Journal of American College Health, 2025
Previous research on college campus environments, student mental health, and COVID-19 has primarily focused on individual-level factors, with limited attention to the broader institutional characteristics. Objective and Methods: Using the national survey data from the American College Health Association, this study examines the influence of both…
Descriptors: Mental Health, College Students, COVID-19, Pandemics
Alexa G. Deyo; Alison Vrabec; Katherine M. Kidwell – Journal of American College Health, 2025
Objective: To examine associations among college students' worry about COVID-19, use of healthy and unhealthy coping techniques, and sleep-related impairment. Participants: The sample consisted of 366 undergraduate students (M[subscript age] =19.48 ± 1.76 years, 63.4% women; 62.6% college freshman). Methods: University students completed a series…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Coping, Stress Management
Andrea M. Flynn; Brian A. Sundermeier; Nicole R. Rivera – Journal of American College Health, 2024
Objective: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the psychometric properties of a new measure of academic stressors (the ASM) in college students. Participants: The ASM was given to 677 undergraduate students at three universities along with measures of anxiety/depression, Big Five personality traits, and study skills. Methods: Tests of…
Descriptors: Psychometrics, Stress Variables, Undergraduate Students, Anxiety
Enia Zigbuo-Wenzler; Andrea M. Brace; Zuojin Yu; Diadrey-Anne Sealy; Caroline I. Wood; Carrie McFadden – Journal of American College Health, 2025
Objectives: This study explores whether the COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated the prevalence of food insecurity (FI) among US college students. Participants: College students (n = 489) enrolled at a Mid-Atlantic university. Methods: A mixed methods design was utilized for data collection and analysis through an electronic survey and semi-structured…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, College Students, Hunger
Abigail Coulter; Marissa McElrone; Dawn Ford; Kara Hamilton – Journal of American College Health, 2025
Objective: Explore predictors of early COVID-19 vaccine adoption on a university campus. Participants: Students, faculty, staff, and administration (N = 1,234) completed an online survey exploring COVID-19 vaccine-related experiences, perspectives, and knowledge, from September to October 2021. Methods: Based on vaccination status participants…
Descriptors: Immunization Programs, COVID-19, Adoption (Ideas), Predictor Variables
Megan E. Douglas; Heidemarie Blumenthal; Charles A. Guarnaccia – Journal of American College Health, 2024
Objective: The transition to college is marked by poorer eating behaviors, making emerging adulthood a particularly salient intervention point for improving lifelong health. The present study aims to better understand what psychosocial factors predict eating behaviors of college students using the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB). Participants…
Descriptors: College Students, Eating Habits, Predictor Variables, Food
Corey M. Monley; Evan E. Ozmat; Jessica L. Martin; Junsung Oh – Journal of American College Health, 2025
Objective: Drinking more and drinking to cope increase undergraduates' likelihood of experiencing alcohol-related problems (ARP; e.g., driving intoxicated). In accordance with stress-coping models of addiction, anxiety about COVID-19 may motivate undergraduates to drink to cope, leading them to experience more ARP. However, this hypothesis has not…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Drinking, Coping, Anxiety
Erin M. Hill – Journal of American College Health, 2025
Objective: The aim of the present study was to examine the role of health locus of control (HLOC; internal, chance, powerful others) in antibiotic resistance perceptions and antibiotic use behaviors among college students. Participants: Participants were 366 students recruited from the introductory psychology pool at a university in the…
Descriptors: Locus of Control, Biochemistry, Introductory Courses, Psychology
Julia Torquati; Caitlin Lombardi; Rachel Chazan Cohen; Ann Matthews; Holly Brophy-Herb – Journal of American College Health, 2025
Objective: This research examined how stressors experienced by college students within the first month of the COVID-19 pandemic were associated with their reports of psychological distress, mindfulness, and coping strategies. Participants: Students attending 11 universities in the U.S. (N = 464, M age = 20.72, SD = 3.90, 91% female, 61% White, and…
Descriptors: Stress Variables, Coping, Metacognition, Predictor Variables
Amy M. Kemp; Gabriella Norton; Madison Neese; Yalian Pei; Katy H. O'Brien – Journal of American College Health, 2025
Objective: This mixed method study examined how psychosocial factors from the Theory of Planned Behavior and Reasoned Action (TPB/RA) influence health-seeking behaviors after concussion, expanding from student-athlete TPB/RA research to assess the influence of psychosocial factors within a general college population. Participants: Two hundred and…
Descriptors: Health Behavior, Head Injuries, Brain, Student Athletes
Charlotte Corran; Paul Norman; Roisin M. O'Connor – Journal of American College Health, 2025
Studies have shown that those high in anxiety were at increased risk for alcohol use during the COVID-19 pandemic. Tension reduction theory points to anxiety sensitivity (AS) as a potential risk factor. Drinking to cope may further increase this risk. During the pandemic, those high in AS may have experienced increased stress and drank to cope,…
Descriptors: Anxiety, At Risk Persons, Drinking, COVID-19
Rosario-Williams, Beverlin; Rowe-Harriott, Sashana; Ray, Marielle; Jeglic, Elizabeth; Miranda, Regina – Journal of American College Health, 2022
Objective: Although research has identified interpersonal, intrapersonal, and achievement-related factors that precipitate suicide attempts (SAs), how these factors vary by race/ethnicity is unknown. We examined racial/ethnic differences in SA precipitants in a racially/ethnically diverse sample of young adults (YAs) with a SA history. Method:…
Descriptors: Self Destructive Behavior, Suicide, Predictor Variables, Racial Differences
Holm, Abby Johnson; Hausman, Hannah; Rhodes, Matthew G. – Journal of American College Health, 2022
Objective: The current study examined the regular use of study strategies between college students who misused prescription stimulants (N = 36) and college students who did not misuse prescription stimulants (N = 298) in an undergraduate sample. Participants: 334 college students at a large, Midwestern university. Methods: Using logistic…
Descriptors: Study Habits, Undergraduate Students, Drug Abuse, Stimulants
Kimberly R. Laurene; Geethika Kodukula; William V. Lechner; Chelsea Grega; Evelyn Lumpkin; Deric R. Kenne – Journal of American College Health, 2024
Objective: To examine changes in psychological distress of college students as a function of demographic and psychological variables over time during the COVID-19 pandemic. Participants: Subjects were recruited from a large public university in Northeast Ohio using electronic surveys administered at three time points in 2020. Methods:…
Descriptors: Anxiety, COVID-19, Pandemics, College Students
Sharron Xuanren Wang; Jarid Goodman – Journal of American College Health, 2024
Objective: This study investigated rates and predictors of mental health issues (e.g., depression and anxiety) in a sample of college students currently attending a historically Black college/university (HBCU) during the COVID-19 pandemic. Participants/Methods: 98 undergraduate students (81 female and 17 male) completed an online survey containing…
Descriptors: Mental Health, Black Colleges, COVID-19, Pandemics