
<oai_dc:dc xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd">
  <dc:title>BINGE-DRINKING BEHAVIORS, ALCOHOL-RELATED CONSEQUENCES, AND HEALTH-RELATED QUALITY OF LIFE: DOES PSYCHOLOGICAL FLEXIBILITY PLAY A PART IN BINGE-DRINKING AND HEALTH BEHAVIORS OF COLLEGE STUDENTS?</dc:title>
  <dc:creator>Grix, Bethany</dc:creator>
  <dc:description>Binge-drinking among young adult populations is considered a global health and safety concern. Binge-drinking behavior has been directly linked to immediate and long-term psychosocial, societal, and health-related consequences. To date, psychological flexibility and values-based committed action has been only theoretically linked to binge-drinking behavior, health, and alcohol-related consequences. Therefore, this study investigated binge-drinking behavior and its relationship with alcohol and health-related consequences, in a college-aged population, as well as the role psychological flexibility has within these relationships. Binge-drinking was defined as the consumption of ≥ 4/5 drinks (females/males, respectively), within a two hour period, over a 6-month period (NIAAA, 2004; Courney &amp; Polnich, 2009). One hundred eighty-nine undergraduate participants (75 female, 114male) from a Midwestern university completed an online survey. Of the 189 undergraduates, 116 (61.4%) identified as non-binge-drinkers and 73 (38.6%) as binge-drinkers. Results showed that psychological flexibility predicted binge-drinking behavior. More specifically, higher degrees of psychological flexibility decreased the likelihood that individuals would engage in binge-drinking behavior. Interactions also emerged between binge-drinking quantity and psychological flexibility on alcohol-related consequences. Similarly, psychological flexibility was shown to buffer the relationship between binge-drinking status and HRQoL. Demographic and psychosocial differences also emerged across binge-drinking severity groups and outcome measures.</dc:description>
  <dc:description>Ph.D. in Psychology, July 2014</dc:description>
  <dc:contributor>Mitchell, M. Ellen</dc:contributor>
  <dc:date>2014</dc:date>
  <dc:date>2014-07</dc:date>
  <dc:type>Dissertation</dc:type>
  <dc:format>application/pdf</dc:format>
  <dc:identifier>islandora:6548</dc:identifier>
  <dc:identifier>http://hdl.handle.net/10560/3396</dc:identifier>
  <dc:source>PSYCH / Institute of Psychology</dc:source>
  <dc:source>Illinois Institute of Technology</dc:source>
  <dc:language>en</dc:language>
  <dc:rights>In Copyright</dc:rights>
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  <dc:rights>Restricted Access</dc:rights>
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