In light of the drawbacks of academic procrastination, it is surprising that not all students want to decrease academic procrastination. To find out why students are motivated (or not) to change academic procrastination, we investigated the characteristics of 377 German students with different motivations to change based on the Transtheoretical…

This study examines the impact of the recent financial crisis on co-occurring patterns of change in financial strain and financial coping behaviors of college students (N = 748) using two-timed, longitudinal data collected prior to the 2008 financial crisis and again one year later. Using a stress and coping framework, we found that different…

Behavioral principles suggested by the Health Belief Model, Social Learning Theory, and Problem Behavior Theory are integrated to produce the Integrated Theoretical Model for Alcohol and Drug Prevention, a theoretical model for alcohol and other drug abuse prevention on the college campus. (Author/NB)