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Essays on Gun and Marijuana Laws
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Haoyi Wei – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This dissertation adds to the economic study of gun and marijuana laws. Chapter 1 studies the impact of stand your ground laws (SYGs) on traffic fatalities. Chapter 2 investigates the effects of campus concealed carry laws (CCCs) on higher education outcomes. Chapter 3 looks at the impact of medical marijuana laws (MMLs) on youth crimes. The first…
Descriptors: Marijuana, Weapons, Laws, Traffic Safety
An Event-Level Analysis of Drinking Behaviors in College Freshmen
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Ray, Anne Elizabeth – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The Center for Disease Control and Prevention indicates that alcohol use is the third leading preventable cause of death in the United States and results in approximately 79,000 deaths annually. College students are at particular risk of alcohol-related consequences due to their heavy drinking tendencies, with multiple studies indicating over 40%…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Disease Control, Prevention, Drinking
Effects of Death Education on Fear of Death and Attitudes towards Death and Life.
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Leviton, Dan; Fretz, Bruce – Omega: Journal of Death and Dying, 1978
Students in a death education course were compared with students of sex education and introductory psychology. After the death education course, students viewed death as more approachable, and wished to experience death in a more interpersonal as compared to a technological context. (Author)
Descriptors: Course Objectives, Death, Higher Education, Program Effectiveness
Effectiveness of a Death-Education Program in Reducing Death Anxiety of Nursing Students.
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Johansson, Noreen; Lally, Terry – Omega: Journal of Death and Dying, 1991
Evaluated effectiveness of death education program in reducing death anxiety experienced by 22 junior and senior nursing students. Subjects were pre- and posttested with State Form of State-Trait Anxiety Inventory and viewed film of death experience. Posttest analysis indicated that death education program was effective in decreasing death anxiety…
Descriptors: Anxiety, College Students, Comparative Analysis, Death
Death Anxiety Reduction as the Result of Exposure to a Death and Dying Symposium.
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Waldman, David A.; Davidshofer, Charles – Omega: Journal of Death and Dying, 1984
Measured the effect of a three-week death and dying symposium on attitudes and anxiety related to death, dying, and grief. Results indicated lower death anxiety for students in both the treatment and control groups. Findings are discussed in terms of widespread media coverage and informal discussions which accompany symposiums. (JAC)
Descriptors: Anxiety, Attendance, Attitude Change, College Students
The "Ripple Effect" of a University Sponsored Death and Dying Symposium.
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Cook, Alicia S.; And Others – Omega: Journal of Death and Dying, 1985
Conducted a follow-up study of a three-week, university sponsored death and dying symposium to measure attitudes of nonattendees. The findings showed a declining taboo regarding death education and a "ripple effect" in which individuals are affected by a death education program even though they do not attend it. (JAC)
Descriptors: College Students, Conferences, Death, Followup Studies
Death Education for the Health Professional.
Benoliel, Jeanne Quint, Ed. – Death Education, 1982
Contains seven articles reviewing various death education programs for health professionals. Discusses death education in undergraduate and advanced nursing practice programs; a graduate course focusing on social, psychological, and cultural conditions influencing death; two death education programs in medical schools; and humanistic health care…
Descriptors: Course Descriptions, Death, Educational Objectives, Educational Resources