"I Got Your Back": Friends' Understandings Regarding College Student Spring Break Behavior

Megan E. Patrick; Nicole Morgan; Jennifer L. Maggs; Eva S. Lefkowitz

doi:10.1007/s10964-010-9515-8

"I Got Your Back": Friends' Understandings Regarding College Student Spring Break Behavior

Megan E. Patrick, Nicole Morgan, Jennifer L. Maggs, Eva S. Lefkowitz

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Behaviors that pose threats to safety and health, including binge drinking and unprotected sex, increase during a week-long break from university. Understandings with peers regarding these behaviors may be important for predicting behavior and related harms. College students (N = 651; 48% men) reported having understandings with their friends regarding alcohol use (59%) and sexual behavior (45%) during Spring Break. These understandings were to engage in behaviors characterized by risk (e.g., get drunk [23.5%], have sex with someone new [5.2%]) and protection (e.g., drink without getting drunk [17.8%], use condoms [15.8%]). After controlling for previous semester behavior and going on a Spring Break trip, Get Drunk Understandings predicted a greater likelihood of binge drinking and alcohol-related consequences; No/Safe Sex Understandings predicted condom use; and Sex Understandings predicted not using condoms. Understandings with friends regarding Spring Break behavior may be important proximal predictors of risk behaviors and represent potential targets for event-specific prevention.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	108-120
Number of pages	13
Journal	Journal of youth and adolescence
Volume	40
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-010-9515-8
State	Published - Jan 2011

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