2) Andrew, F. W., BaileyShea, C., & McIntosh, S. (2012). Community college student alcohol use: Developing context-specific evidence and prevention approaches. Community College Review, 40(1), 25-45. Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com/docview/1007871979?accountid=13626
3) This study looks at community college students and how often they drink alcohol. Most studies focus on students attending four year universities so this study focuses solely on community college students because they have not been represented in the calculated percentages of alcohol consumption. Environment and background was also considered in determining students' attitudes towards drinking. The aim is to find a way to instill prevention because community colleges, in particular, are limited in their resources for alcohol abuse prevention.
4) There are three authors but "Dr. McIntosh received his B.S. in Psychology in 1984 (Iowa State University), his M.A. in Counseling Psychology in 1986 (University of Missouri), and his Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology in 1993 (University of Miami)."
http://www.urmc.rochester.edu/people/22490087-scott-mcintosh
5) This study focuses on the drinking patterns of students attending community colleges. Normally, research on alcohol use is focused on four year universities so this study aims at solely focusing on community colleges. It also aims at understanding how the environment impacts the individual and how the individual has an effect on the environment.
6)"While several broad alcohol studies have included community college students, including a study of alcohol-related mortality among college students (Hingson et al., 2005), and a study of college matriculants as compared to those not attending college (O'Malley & Johnston, 2002), a weakness of these studies is that they have not disaggregated their results to address the community college student population"
Community college students are not considered in most studies so I hope to use this quote to introduce my point that community college students should also be included because they are dealing with a different environment and thus different levels of stress.
"More recently, research on student alcohol abuse has examined the relationship between the prevalence of alcohol use among children of alcoholics, finding a higher occurrence of alcohol abuse among community college students who have alcoholic parents as compared to the alcohol use rates of 4-year college students with alcoholic parents (Coll, 1995)."
It seems like there is a higher likelihood for community college students to become alcoholics and I'd like to explore why this may be, in comparison to students attending four year universities.
"Application of this health-behavior theory operates on the basis of the interaction between an individual's self-efficacy, outcome expectations, perceived environmental impediments and facilitators, and behavior. Bandura (2004) emphasizes the idea of reciprocal determinism, whereby the environment influences the individual and the individual influences the environment."
I think Bandura's theory is very interesting and offers merit. I agree with the idea of how the environment influences the individual and how the individual influences the environment and I'd like to make this a focus, in my essay.
7) This source will be particularly useful for me because it offers another interesting argument of the drinking patterns with community colleges. Community college students, for the most part, commute to school and thus don't live on campus. They don't have the same, typical "college experience" that the students attending four year universities have. And so, I can further examine how maybe the fact that these students have to commute to school adds another, different, stress in their life that residential students don't have.
This could be an intriguing area of research, I guess the question I have is whether you have enough evidence to support a paper that focused on community college drinking. The problem, from my perspective, is that it is not a very well documented phenomenon. Community college students -- no matter how they are portrayed on a show like "Community" (available online for free here: http://www.hulu.com/community) -- do not generally form a "community" because of the commuting culture and the typical absence of on-campus residency. So it is hard to talk of community college student behavior as a collective behavior. The sort of "drinking culture" of the four-year institution is not as present or enforced at community colleges. There are not frat parties and such. That's why it makes sense that the bigger influence would be parental behavior. That your article suggests alcohol use is more prevalent among community college students than students in four-year institutions is a big surprise to me. But I still wonder how to address that problem in a systematic way, as the community college students do not function as a community...no matter how much we would like to imagine them doing so (as on that show).
ReplyDeleteBut perhaps that is the problem you can address. If it is so (and I would like to see you cite more research on this) that community college students are more likely to drink, then obviously it would be good to try to help them. But how do you help them? And is there a community college "drinking culture"? If so, how does it get transmitted when there are so few shared cultural contexts for passing on that drinking culture? Is it just a demographic thing? Do the people who go to community college have demographic characteristics that are shared with the population that drinks? Why would that be?
I have more questions than answers.