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Hickerson, Paul Tyler – ProQuest LLC, 2016
The prevalence of substance use among adolescents warrants considerable concern since it often has detrimental effects on an individual's physical and mental health, and correlates with worsened social, physical, and employment outcomes. Research shows that adolescents with disabilities are especially susceptible to the development of substance…
Descriptors: Substance Abuse, Adolescents, Disabilities, Screening Tests
Johnson, Byron R.; Pagano, Maria E.; Lee, Matthew T.; Post, Stephen G. – Youth & Society, 2018
Because addiction is a socially isolating disease, social support for recovery is an important element of treatment planning. This study examines the relationship between social isolation, giving and receiving social support in Alcoholics Anonymous during treatment, and post-treatment outcomes among juvenile offenders court-referred to addiction…
Descriptors: Crime, Social Isolation, Addictive Behavior, Alcohol Abuse
Emanuel, Richard; Bell, Rodney; Cotton, Cedric; Craig, Jamon; Drummond, Danielle; Gibson, Samuel; Harris, Ashley; Harris, Marcus; Hatcher-Vance, Chelsea; Jones, Staci; Lewis, Jade; Longmire, Trenard; Nash, Brent; Ryans, Torrance; Tyre, Ebony; Walters, Dionne; Williams, Alexis – College Student Journal, 2015
A representative sample of 404 undergraduate students from a public university in the Southeast was surveyed about their smartphone dependency. One in five rated themselves as totally dependent on their phone; about half agreed that they are overly dependent. More females than males reported feeling safer with their phone than without it. More…
Descriptors: Telecommunications, Handheld Devices, Addictive Behavior, Undergraduate Students
Yamamoto, Junko; Ananou, Simeon – Contemporary Educational Technology, 2015
Even though technology has brought great benefits to current society, there are also indications that the manner in which people use technology has undermined their humanity in some respects. In this article the authors frame human nature in terms of four dimensions: cognition, social interaction, emotion, and ethics. We argue that while basic…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Cognitive Processes, Interpersonal Relationship, Ethics
Raju, Nevil Johnson; Valsaraj, Blessy Prabha; Noronha, Judith – Journal of Education and Practice, 2015
Online social networking (OSN) has played a significant role on the relationship among college students. It is becoming a popular medium for socializing online and tools to facilitate friendship. Young adults and adolescents are the most prolific users of OSN sites. The frequent use of OSN sites results in addiction toward these sites and…
Descriptors: Social Networks, Social Media, Addictive Behavior, Questionnaires
Lapshina, Natalia; Stewart, Shannon L. – Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disability, 2019
Background: This study examined predictors of service complexity in children with comorbid intellectual developmental disorder (IDD) and mental health concerns. We examined whether patient type, safety risk, exposure to trauma, and family dysfunction were related to service complexity. Method: The study had a cross-sectional design, wherein…
Descriptors: Intellectual Disability, Mental Disorders, Hospitals, Clinics
Morgan, Hani; Lee, Guang-Lea – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2017
Although the use of technology can be very important for children younger than age 12 years, not all countries possess the financial resources to make digital resources widely available to students. Children can also use technology inappropriately. This study explores the consequences of exposure to different forms of technology on children. It…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Toys, Children, Computers
Hill, John C.; Hains, Bryan; Ricketts, Kristina – Journal of Alcohol and Drug Education, 2017
Drug abuse has been a persistent problem within the United States. Among the nation, Kentucky ranks third in drug overdose and drug mortality rates, with numbers quadrupling from 1999 to 2010. Recent statistics indicate drug offenders account or a significant portion of individuals within the criminal justice system, directly affecting the…
Descriptors: Drug Abuse, Addictive Behavior, Intervention, Social Development
Forberger, Sarah; Riedel, Oliver; Bühringer, Gerhard – Drugs: Education, Prevention & Policy, 2017
This paper reports on the European Graduate School in Addiction Research (ESADD), which contributes to the scientific education of PhD/MD addiction research students and promotes interdisciplinary cooperation and academic networking in Europe. ESADD is a two-year course, built first from a conceptual analysis of knowledge needs, then iteratively…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Graduate Students, Addictive Behavior, Student Research
Bednarz, Jana; Delfabbro, Paul; King, Daniel – International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction, 2013
The aim of this study was to examine the role of free-play modes on gambling behaviour in computer-based roulette. Eighty participants were randomly allocated to one of four pre-exposure conditions: no exposure (control group), a loss condition, a break-even and a profit condition in which the return to player was greater than 100%. Behavioural…
Descriptors: Addictive Behavior, Persistence, Play, Computer Games
Gezgin, Deniz Mertkan – Cypriot Journal of Educational Sciences, 2018
The aim of this study is to examine the relationship among smartphone addiction, fear of missing out (FoMO), excessive use of social networking sites (SNSs) on smartphones and sleep duration among high school students. The study group consists of 161 high school students from two state high schools in Turkey. Pearson correlation coefficient and…
Descriptors: Addictive Behavior, Handheld Devices, Correlation, Age Differences
Taylor, Purcell; El-Sabawi, Taleed; Cangin, Causenge – Journal of American College Health, 2016
Objective: To improve the CAGE (Cut down, Annoyed, Guilty, Eye opener) questionnaire's predictive accuracy in screening college students. Participants: The sample consisted of 219 midwestern university students who self-administered a confidential survey. Methods: Exploratory factor analysis, confirmatory factor analysis, receiver operating…
Descriptors: College Students, Factor Analysis, Screening Tests, Factor Structure
Arslan, Yusuf – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2016
In this study, it was tried to comprehend whether there occur any changes in behaviours of university students switching from classical cell phones to smartphones. The investigation was carried out according to quantitative research method. Questionnaire was employed as data collection tool. The datum of the study was limited with the information…
Descriptors: Telecommunications, College Students, Behavior Change, Statistical Analysis
Ružic-Baf, Maja; Strnak, Hrvoje; Debeljuh, Andrea – International Journal of Research in Education and Science, 2016
The availability of new information and communication technologies to an increasingly younger population, the constant availability of the Internet and the opportunity to search information, to create new types and models of communication, types of acceptance and ways of accepting and coping with the infinite amount of information, the velocity…
Descriptors: Technology Uses in Education, Educational Technology, Video Games, Grade 7
Kirschmann, Erin K. Z.; Mauna, Jocelyn C.; Willis, Cory M.; Foster, Rebecca L.; Chipman, Amanda M.; Thiels, Edda – Learning & Memory, 2014
Conditioned stimuli (CS) can modulate reward-seeking behavior. This modulatory effect can be maladaptive and has been implicated in excessive reward seeking and relapse to drug addiction. We previously demonstrated that exposure to an appetitive CS causes an increase in the activation of extracellular signal-regulated kinase (ERK) and cyclic-AMP…
Descriptors: Conditioning, Stimuli, Cues, Rewards