Analyses of administrative data have revealed that during the 1990s and early twenty-first century, young people in England from ethnic minority backgrounds appeared to have a greater propensity to participate in higher education than their white British counterparts. This paper presents the results of an analysis of linked administrative data for…

Presents an integrative path model that details relationships among several demographic variables, life stress, depression, hopelessness, social support, and suicidal ideation of 737 college students. Found negative life stress to be a significant predictor of both depression and hopelessness. Depression proved to be a better predictor of suicidal…

Three groups of secondary school students were identified in the sample of over 7,000 high school students from the 1987/88 California Substance Use Survey based on patterns of involvement with alcohol and other drugs. Of primary interest are high risk users (HRUs) who engage in socially deplored and often dangerous forms of substance use. HRU…