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Collateral Reports in the College Setting: A Meta-Analytic Integration

ALCOHOLISM, Issue 5 2009
Brian Borsari
Background:, The majority of research examining college drinking utilizes self-report data, and collateral reports have been used to verify participants' self-reported alcohol use. Methods:, This meta-analytic integration examined the correspondence of over 970 collateral and participant dyads in the college setting. Results and Conclusions:, Results indicated that there is little bias (mean difference) between collateral estimates of participant drinking and participant's self-report. A cumulative meta-analysis revealed that this (null) effect was stable and unlikely to be altered by subsequent research or the existence of unpublished studies. Analysis of the agreement between collaterals and participant estimates (measured by intraclass correlation coefficients; ICCs) revealed moderate levels of agreement (mean ICC = 0.501). Examination of predictors of both bias and agreement in collateral and participant reports indicates a possible intentional and protective underreporting on the part of the collaterals. Ways to reduce this bias are discussed along with the value of using collaterals to verify participant self-report in the college setting. [source]

Heavy Episodic Drinking and Alcohol Consumption in French Colleges: The Role of Perceived Social Norms

ALCOHOLISM, Issue 1 2010
Lionel Riou França
Background:, The effect of normative perceptions (social norms) on heavy episodic drinking (HED) behavior is well known in the U.S. college setting, but little work is available in other cultural contexts. The objective of this study is therefore to assess whether social norms of alcohol use are related to HED in France, taking account of other influential predictors. Methods:, A cross-sectional survey was carried out among 731 second-year university students in the Paris region to explore the role of 29 potential alcohol use risk factors. The probability of heavy episodic drinking and the frequency of HED among heavy episodic drinkers were modeled independently. Monthly alcohol consumption was also assessed. Results:, Of the students, 56% overestimate peer student prevalence of HED (37% for alcohol drinking prevalence). HED frequency rises with perceived peer student prevalence of HED. Other social norms associated with HED are perceived friends' approval of HED (increasing both HED probability and HED frequency) and perceived friend prevalence of alcohol drinking (increasing HED probability only). Cannabis and tobacco use, academic discipline, gender, and the number of friends are also identified as being associated with HED. Conclusions:, Overestimation of peer student prevalence is not uncommon among French university students. Furthermore, perceived peer student prevalence of HED is linked to HED frequency, even after adjusting for other correlates. Interventions correcting misperceived prevalences of HED among peer students have therefore the potential to reduce the frequency of HED in this population. [source]

Collateral Reports in the College Setting: A Meta-Analytic Integration

Nurturing intuition through group learning

NEW DIRECTIONS FOR ADULT & CONTINUING EDUCATION, Issue 94 2002
Annette Weinberg Zelman
The collaborative inquiry group on intuition met in a college setting to discuss what participants had acknowledged internally but not discussed openly. They validated intuition as a way of knowing and learned how to nurture it in themselves and others. [source]

Violence against women: is psychology part of the problem or the solution?

JOURNAL OF COMMUNITY & APPLIED SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY, Issue 6 2002
A content analysis of psychological research from 1990 through 199
Abstract Previous critiques of traditional psychology portrayed a discipline that examines social problems from an exceptionalistic perspective and decontextualizes the subjects of its inquiries. We analysed 10 years of psychological research on domestic violence, sexual assault, and sexual harassment to determine whether this criticism applied to violence against women research. Specifically, we examined the purpose, level of analysis, sample, and context of 1396 PsychLit abstracts. We found that almost half reported an examination of causal factors. Only one quarter reported intervention studies. Most studies focused at the individual level of analysis and few included contextual factors. Investigators explored questions about domestic violence most frequently among samples of victims and perpetrators drawn from clinical settings. Sexual assault and sexual harassment researchers depended on victims and perpetrators to a lesser extent, but tended to rely upon convenience samples from college settings. Representative community samples were used in only 9% of studies. These findings support the view that psychological research on violence against women suffers from a heavy emphasis on exceptionalism at the expense of a universalistic perspective, the latter of which we contend is critical to advancing the field and reducing a major threat to women's health and wellbeing. Copyright © 2002 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source]

Personal, academic, and career counseling of African American women in college settings

NEW DIRECTIONS FOR STUDENT SERVICES, Issue 104 2003
Madonna G. Constantine
This chapter provides information about personal, academic, and vocational concerns of African American college women and offers culturally relevant counseling frameworks and interventions for working with this population. [source]