| Title |
“I Got Your Back”: Friends’ Understandings Regarding College Student Spring Break Behavior
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Journal of Youth and Adolescence, February 2010
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| DOI | 10.1007/s10964-010-9515-8 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Megan E. Patrick, Nicole Morgan, Jennifer L. Maggs, Eva S. Lefkowitz |
| Abstract |
Behaviors that pose threats to safety and health, including binge drinking and unprotected sex, increase during a week-long break from university. Understandings with peers regarding these behaviors may be important for predicting behavior and related harms. College students (N = 651; 48% men) reported having understandings with their friends regarding alcohol use (59%) and sexual behavior (45%) during Spring Break. These understandings were to engage in behaviors characterized by risk (e.g., get drunk [23.5%], have sex with someone new [5.2%]) and protection (e.g., drink without getting drunk [17.8%], use condoms [15.8%]). After controlling for previous semester behavior and going on a Spring Break trip, Get Drunk Understandings predicted a greater likelihood of binge drinking and alcohol-related consequences; No/Safe Sex Understandings predicted condom use; and Sex Understandings predicted not using condoms. Understandings with friends regarding Spring Break behavior may be important proximal predictors of risk behaviors and represent potential targets for event-specific prevention. |
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| United States | 1 | 100% |
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| Student > Ph. D. Student | 10 | 18% |
| Researcher | 8 | 14% |
| Student > Master | 7 | 12% |
| Student > Bachelor | 6 | 11% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 3 | 5% |
| Other | 9 | 16% |
| Unknown | 14 | 25% |
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| Social Sciences | 11 | 19% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 4 | 7% |
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| Other | 6 | 11% |
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