Risky lifestyle behaviours have a multiplicative impact on both the length and quality of peoples’ lives. In order to improve health outcomes and reduce social inequalities in these outcomes, behaviour change services are recommended by health care and public health professional…
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High rates of both binge drinking and traumatic brain injury (TBI) are common among military personnel returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. Given the normative behavior of binge drinking in the military, alcohol may be used to cope with the stresses of combat experiences and inj…
Objective: The current study examined prospective relationships between religious affiliation, feelings of guilt and shame, ethical orientation (relativism and idealism), alcohol consumption and quantity of heavy episodic drinking. Participants: Three hundred and seventy-one stu…
Heavy drinking among college students has been identified as a major public health concern in the United States. While research on college drinking is extensive, it is almost exclusively focused on white non-Hispanic populations, with minimal attention to ethnic minority groups-…
Error processing is a facet of cognitive control allowing for the flexible modification of behavior to optimize future outcomes. Models of addiction propose that executive deficits underlie the dysregulation of self-control resulting in the inability to refrain from excessive al…
Approximately 69,000,000 individuals sustain TBIs each year worldwide. Alcohol use is a known risk factor for TBI. Nearly 50% of individuals with TBI endorse binge drinking, alcohol-related negative consequences, or meet criteria for AUDs. One of the most pressing issues within …
Binge drinking and non-suicidal self-injury are significant health-risk behaviors that are often initiated during adolescence and contribute to a host of negative outcomes later in life. Selective prevention strategies are targeted toward individuals most at-risk for developing …
The research study aims to investigate if carrying a weapon is considered as a high-risk behavior in college students (HBCUs) and if a history of receiving mental health treatment is associated with increased binge drinking among college students. Moreover, the study determined …