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Title: ATTITUDES TOWARD SUICIDE AMONG COLLEGE STUDENTS OF COLOR: THE ROLE OF RACE, MINORITY STRESS, RELIGIOSITY, SOCIAL SUPPORT AND INSTITUTION
Author: Montague, Karlesia
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Counseling psychology
Description: Suicide is the second leading cause of death among college-aged students (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC], 2019) and a growing concern on college campuses (Castillo & Schwartz, 2013; Drum et al., 2009; Eisenberg et al., 2013; Flem...

Title: Alcohol Use and Mental Health Issues In Fifth-Year College Students
Author: Zuber, Pilar
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Public health, Mental health
Description: The purpose of this study was to develop a profile of at-risk 5th-year students by assessing the relationships between heavy alcohol use and mental health issues, on academic performance in 5th-year students. This secondary analysis study used the...

Title: Assessing the Feasibility, Acceptability, Preliminary Efficacy, and Anticipated Clinical Practice Implementation of a Mindful Eating Smartphone Application: A Mixed Methods Analysis Among Undergraduate Women with Binge Eating and Clinical Experts.
Author: Jafari, Nadia
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Women's studies, Psychology
Description: Mental health applications (mHealth apps) are developed to bolster the utility and convenience of smartphones to stimulate behavior change, although many mHealth apps lack strong empirical support. Undergraduate women are daily app users and a hig...

Title: Differences Between Resident Advisors And Undergraduate Residential Students On Resilience, Mental Health, Burnout, And Perceived Stress
Author: Harris, Corrine
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Education, Higher, Mental health
Description: The mental health and well-being of college students has become a growing concern for colleges and universities. Research has shown that prevalence rates of mental health in college students is growing and there are multiple complicating impacts o...

Title: Examination of Sleep Quality and ADHD Symptomatology on College Students' Academic Performance
Author: Chen, Michelle
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Medical sciences, Education, Higher, Psychology
Description: College students frequently struggle to obtain a sufficient amount and quality of sleep. National Sleep Foundation (NSF) guidelines recommend that young adults aged 18 to 25 obtain 7 to 9 hours of sleep per night – a goal that less than 50% of stu...

Title: Examining the factor structure of two subscales of the Independent Living Scales (ILS) in a clinical sample and a college sample.
Author: Johnson, Ashley
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Psychology, Clinical psychology
Description: This study examined the factor structure of the Independent Living Scales in two subscales of the measure, Managing Money (MM) and Health and Safety (HS), that have been recommended as most valid for predicting competency adjudications (Quickel & ...

Title: Exercise Is Medicine-On Campus® and Contemporary Physical Activity Measurement in College Students
Author: McAvoy, Cayla
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Public health, Kinesiology
Description: The benefits of regular physical activity (PA) for lifelong health are abundant. However, college students are at risk for a decline in PA levels during a transformational life-course period, where long-lasting health behaviors often form. One evi...

Title: Purpose in Life and Career Indecision as Predictors of Academic Success in College
Author: Olivera-Celdran, Galina
Date Created: 2011
Subjects--Topical: Education, Counseling psychology
Description: The purpose of this study was to examine how purpose in life (exciting life and purposeful life) and career indecision (lack of structure and confidence, perceived external barriers, approach-approach conflict, and personal conflict) related to cu...

Title: The effects of physical activity and nutrition on the stress management, interpersonal relationships and alcohol consumption of college freshmen
Author: Salandy, Simone
Date Created: 2011
Subjects--Topical: Public health
Description: Objective: The aim of this study was to assess the changes of health behaviors in college students as they transition through their freshman year. Methods: At a southern public university, the author surveyed 167 freshmen, ages 18 to 25, to examin...

Title: Trauma, Emotional Distress, Race and Ethnicity, Gender, Greek Affiliation, and Year-in-School as Predictors of Nonmedical Use of Prescription Drugs Among Undergraduate College Students.
Author: Jeffs, Patrick
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Counseling psychology, Public health, Education, Higher
Description: The purpose of this study was to identity how events perceived as traumatic or very difficult to handle, factors of emotional distress, and demographics may predict nonmedical use of prescription drugs (NMPD) among traditional undergraduate colleg...

Title: Understanding the Career Decision-Making Process for LGBTQ+ College Students of Color at Predominantly White Institutions in the South
Author: Lett, Brynton
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Counseling psychology
Description: Many college students experience career indecision. College students that identify as LGBTQ+ and students of color may experience greater difficulty in the career decision-making process as they often deal with the additional stress of managing mu...