Poor mental health, peer drinking norms, and alcohol risk in a social network of first-year college students.

ABSTRACT: OBJECTIVE:College students with anxiety and depressive symptomatology face escalated risk for alcohol-related negative consequences. While it is well-established that normative perceptions of proximal peers' drinking behaviors influence students' own drinking behaviors, it is not clear how mental health status impacts this association. In the current study, we examined cross-sectional relationships between anxiety and depressed mood, perceived drinking behaviors and attitudes of important peers, and past month alcohol consumption and related problems in a first-semester college student social network. METHOD:Participants (N = 1254, 55% female, 47% non-Hispanic White) were first-year students residing on campus at a single university who completed a web-based survey assessing alcohol use, m

SUBMITTER: Kenney SR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5975188 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature