Social Support Factors and Alcohol Research Paper

This article influenced me in showing the importance of religion in curbing alcohol. It is likely that religion could serve as buffer against other addiction, too.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=%22Harrell%20ZA%22%5BAuthor%5D Harrell, & June's (2008) study was to examine the association between alcohol use and religious and emotional/social support on a sample of 221 American college students. Authors discovered negative correlation to exist between level of religion (i.e. religious dispositional coping and commitment) and between frequency and intensity of drinking. Social support played an insignificant role.

This article affected me in that it demonstrated the significance of religion as compared to the effect of social/emotional support. The authors' results are encouraging for an individual who lacks social support.

An article by any Preventive Medicine faculty member. (Rose, G. (2008). The strategy of preventative medicine. Rose's Strategy of Preventative Medicine, 33-35.NE Noel's article with the title: Changes in substance use during times of stress

Noel, N.E., & Cohen, D.J. (1997). Changes in substance use during times of stress: college students the week before exams. J Drug Educ. 27, 363-72.

Article using or referring to the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test or AUDIT (National Health Service, 2004): Reinert, D.F., & Allen, J.P. (2006). The Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT): A Review of Recent Research, Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 26, 272-279.

Article showing a measure of perceived stress. Cohen, S., Kamarck, T., & Mermelstein, R. ( 1983). A global measure of perceived stress. Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 24, 385-396

Jones, K.H.S., Jason E., Von Schantz, M., Skene, D.J., Derk-Jan D., & Archer, S.N. (2007). Age-related change in the association.....