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Aggressive behavior and alcohol use
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Aggressive behavior and alcohol use
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classification of college athletes
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Conway
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Fiona Conway
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Jeffrey Longhofer
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Jennifer
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Jennifer Buckman
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Rutgers University
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Graduate School - New Brunswick
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2016
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2016
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This exploratory study examines aggressive behavior and alcohol use among college athletes. Scholars have been investigating the problem of off-field aggressive behavior among athletes for several decades and recent media coverage of college and professional athletes as perpetrators of interpersonal violence has put the issue of aggression and sports in the national spotlight. Another persistent concern is the heavy alcohol use of college athletes. Athletes drink more often, have more binge-drinking episodes and more negative alcohol-related consequences than their non-athletic peers. Scientists have conducted numerous empirical investigations of the relationship between aggression and alcohol misuse, and findings support the existence of an enduring connection between the two behaviors. This study employed a person-centered statistical technique, Latent Profile Analysis (LPA), to determine if homogeneous profiles of aggressive behavior and alcohol use could be detected in a heterogeneous sample of 276 college athletes. The analysis identified six profiles ranging in behavioral severity from low aggressive/low drinkers to highly aggressive/high drinkers. A subsequent analysis of the demographic characteristics of each profile found significant differences among some of the profiles in their composition of first-year and second-year students. There were also significant differences among some of the profiles based on gender. These findings have implications for the implementation of tailored prevention and intervention strategies based on each group’s unique characteristics. Colleges and universities are the primary recruiting source for professional sports teams and are uniquely positioned to address problem behaviors before athletes fully enter the national spotlight. Creating customized, effective and efficient behavioral health programs that meet the needs of student-athletes could enhance their well-being and elevate their potential for positive contributions to the communities they inhabit.
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Social Work
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1 online resource (ix, 146 p. : ill.)
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Ph.D.
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Includes bibliographical references
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Alcoholism
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Violence
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College athletes--Alcohol use
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by Fiona Conway
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Graduate School - New Brunswick Electronic Theses and Dissertations
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doi:10.7282/T3S46V24
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ETD doctoral
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Fiona
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2015-12-16 15:00:40
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Fiona Conway
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I hereby grant to the Rutgers University Libraries and to my school the non-exclusive right to archive, reproduce and distribute my thesis or dissertation, in whole or in part, and/or my abstract, in whole or in part, in and from an electronic format, subject to the release date subsequently stipulated in this submittal form and approved by my school. I represent and stipulate that the thesis or dissertation and its abstract are my original work, that they do not infringe or violate any rights of others, and that I make these grants as the sole owner of the rights to my thesis or dissertation and its abstract. I represent that I have obtained written permissions, when necessary, from the owner(s) of each third party copyrighted matter to be included in my thesis or dissertation and will supply copies of such upon request by my school. I acknowledge that RU ETD and my school will not distribute my thesis or dissertation or its abstract if, in their reasonable judgment, they believe all such rights have not been secured. I acknowledge that I retain ownership rights to the copyright of my work. I also retain the right to use all or part of this thesis or dissertation in future works, such as articles or books.
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