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Academic Achievement as a Moderator of Genetic Influences on Alcohol Use in Adolescence
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Benner, Aprile D.; Kretsch, Natalie; Harden, K. Paige; Crosnoe, Robert – Developmental Psychology, 2014
Prior research suggests a link between academic performance and alcohol use during adolescence, but the degree to which this association reflects actual protective effects continues to be debated. We investigated the role of genetic factors in the association between academic achievement and adolescent alcohol use and whether achievement might…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Drinking, Correlation
Gender Differences in the Associations among Body Mass Index, Weight Loss, Exercise, and Drinking among College Students
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Barry, Adam E.; Whiteman, Shawn; Piazza-Gardner, Anna K.; Jensen, Alexander C. – Journal of American College Health, 2013
Objective: To explore gender differences regarding weight management behaviors of college drinkers. Participants: Nationally representative sample of college students from the fall 2008 American College Health Association's National College Health Assessment II ("N" = 26,062 students). Methods: Structural equation modeling was used…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Comparative Analysis, Body Weight, Drinking
School Bonding and Alcohol Use in Italian Early Adolescents: What Comes First?
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Giannotta, Fabrizia; Ozdemir, Metin – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly: Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2013
Previous research has identified school bonding as protective against substance use during adolescence. However, there is still a question as to whether school involvement predicts changes in substance use or if substance use actually predicts changes in level of school bonding. This study investigated the relationship between school bonding and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student School Relationship, Drinking, Substance Abuse
Predicting Quitting-Related Intentions and Smoking Behavior Using Extended Version of the Theory of Planned Behavior and the Problem Behavior Theory among Various Population Subgroups
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Lee, Chung Gun – ProQuest LLC, 2014
This study consists of three sub-studies. Sub-study 1 and 2 attempted to incorporate environmental variables as precursor background variables of the theory of planned behavior (TPB) to predict quitting-related intentions among Texas adult smokers and university student smokers, respectively. Sub-study 1 and 2 analyzed different data sets and were…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Smoking, Health Behavior, Behavior Change
Developmental Pathway Modeling in Considering Behavior Problems in Young Russian Children
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Ruchkin, Vladislav; Gilliam, Walter S.; Mayes, Linda – Child Psychiatry and Human Development, 2008
In planning interventions it is essential to understand how adverse risk factors in early childhood are associated with child mental health problems, whether some types of problems can be better explained by the specific risk factors, and whether early risk factors are differently related to different types of child behavior problems. A community…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Structural Equation Models, Prevention, Drinking
A Comparison of Model- and Multiple Imputation-Based Approaches to Longitudinal Analyses with Partial Missingness.
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Duncan, Terry E.; Duncan, Susan C.; Li, Fuzhong – Structural Equation Modeling, 1998
Presents an application of latent growth curve methodology to the analysis of longitudinal developmental change in alcohol consumption of 586 young adults, illustrating three approaches to the analysis of missing data: (1) multiple-sample structural equation modeling procedures; (2) raw maximum likelihood analyses; and (3) multiple modeling and…
Descriptors: Algorithms, Change, Comparative Analysis, Drinking