Identifying young adult substance abusers: the Rutgers Collegiate Substance Abuse Screening Test.

Bennett, Marlyn; McCrady, Barbara S.; Frankenstein, William; Laitman, Lisa; Horn, Deborah H.A. Van; Keller, Daniel

doi:10.15288/jsa.1993.54.522

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“…In this hookup study, the majority of participants (67.3%) had been drinking prior to their sexual encounter and over 50% were quite intoxicated. Also of importance is the finding that on the RCSAST (Bennett et al 1992), the mean score of participants in this sample (6.49) was above the threshold (5.00) indicating problematic alcohol use. This suggests a high degree of general problems with alcohol use evident in this sample of participants engaging in hookups.…”

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“…Participants endorsed "yes" or "no" for each item, with higher scores indicating more negative experiences related to alcohol or substance use. In the original study, the scale correctly identified 94% of subjects with substance abuse problems using a cutoff score of 5 points (Bennett et al 1992). In this sample, scores on the RCSAST ranged from 0 to 25 (M= 6.49, SD=4.79) encompassing the full range of possible scores.…”

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“…The Rutgers Collegiate Substance Abuse Screening Test (RCSAST; Bennett et al 1992) is a 25-item scale used to assess problem drinking and experiences of negative social, occupational, and academic consequences due to drinking or other substance use. Participants endorsed "yes" or "no" for each item, with higher scores indicating more negative experiences related to alcohol or substance use.…”

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Predicting Verbal Coercion Following Sexual Refusal During a Hookup: Diverging Gender Patterns

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This online study explored gender differences in affective reactions to sexual refusal during hookups and whether state or trait measures were the best predictors of verbal coercion. The Midwestern U.S. undergraduate sample included 220 men and 50 women previously in situations where they wanted more sexual contact than their heterosexual partner desired. Women reported stronger negative responses on several affect variables, suggesting that such refusals might have resulted in significant expectancy violations. Men reported more experience in handling refusals, consistent with traditional sexual scripts. Logistic regression analyses revealed that dominant men were more likely to coerce when angry or confused, whereas hostile women were more likely to coerce when feeling rejected. The results have important implications for sexual coercion prevention efforts.

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“…However, this prior study further showed that the problem drinkers also scored higher on the SADS than did the non-problem drinkers -a relationship that was not replicated in the present study. This discrepancy could be due to differences in the measures of drinking problems employed across studies (Lewis & O'Neill used the Rutgers Collegiate Substance Abuse Screening Test [Bennett et al, 1993] whereas we used the RAPI), or to the fact that they selected and compared extreme groups of problem and non-problem drinkers while we used an unselected sample of drinkers. Nonetheless, even in the Lewis and O'Neill study, the magnitude of the relationship of alcohol problems to fear of negative evaluation was much larger than the magnitude of its relationship to social avoidance and distress.…”

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Relations of social anxiety variables to drinking motives, drinking quantity and frequency, and alcohol-related problems in undergraduates

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Morris

Mellings³

et al. 2006

Journal of Mental Health

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Background: The co-morbidity between social phobia and alcohol disorder is well established. Aims: This study investigated the nature of the relationship between traits associated with these disorders. Method: A total of 157 undergraduate drinkers (112 women; 45 men) completed measures tapping aspects of social phobia (i.e., the Social Avoidance and Distress Scale and the Brief Fear of Negative Evaluation scale) and drinking behavior (i.e., the Drinking Motives Questionnaire -Revised, quantity and frequency of alcohol consumption, and the Rutgers Alcohol Problem Index). Results: Correlational analyses (controlling for gender) revealed that: (i) social avoidance and distress was significantly negatively related to drinking frequency; (ii) fear of negative evaluation and social avoidance and distress were both significantly positively related to drinking to cope with negative emotions and to conform to peer pressure; and (iii) fear of negative evaluation was also significantly positively related to drinking to socialize and to drinking problems. The relationship between fear of negative evaluation and drinking problems was mediated by coping and conformity drinking motives. Conclusions: Implications for developing effective integrated treatments for co-occurring social anxiety and alcohol problems are discussed, as are preventative implications.

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“…For example, if it is determined in future studies that some adolescents are using drugs (particularly hallucinogens) in order to attain a spiritual and/or social experience, programs may be designed to counter these beliefs and motivations. While most research on changing motivation to improve health has been conducted with adults, work has begun with teens and young adults as well, particularly in the arenas of teen drug use cessation (Bell and Battjes, 1985;Bennett et al, 1993;Bernard and Krupat, 1994). Finally, caution should be exercised when interpreting the results of such studies due to "transfer of technology" related problems.…”

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Non Drug Use- and Drug Use-Specific Spirituality as One-Year Predictors of Drug Use Among High-Risk Youth

Sussman

Skara

Rodriguez

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Substance Use & Misuse

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The present article explored two different dimensions of spirituality that might tap negative and positive relations with adolescent drug use over a 1-year period. Non-drug-use-specific spirituality measured how spiritual the person believes he or she is, participation in spiritual groups, and engagement in spiritual practices such as prayer, whereas drug-use-specific spirituality measured using drugs as a spiritual practice. Self-report questionnaire data were collected during 1997-1999 from a sample of 501 adolescents in 18 continuation high schools across southern California. Participants ranged in age from 14 to 19 and were 57% male, with an ethnic distribution of 34% White, 49% Latino, 5% African American, 7% Asian, and 5% other. A series of general linear model analyses were conducted to identify whether or not two different spirituality variables predict drug use (cigarettes, alcohol, marijuana, hallucinogens, and stimulants) at 1-year follow-up. After controlling for baseline drug use, non-drug-use-specific spirituality was negatively predictive of alcohol, marijuana, and stimulant use, whereas drug-use-specific spirituality failed to be found predictive of these variables one year later. Conversely, drug-use-specific spirituality was positively predictive of cigarette smoking and hallucinogen use, whereas non-drug-use spirituality failed to be found predictive of these variables. Our results provide new evidence that suggests that spirituality may have an effect on drug use among adolescents. The drug-use-specific measure of spirituality showed "risk effects" on drug use, whereas the other measure resulted in "protective effects," as found in previous research. Knowledge of the risk and protective patterns and mechanisms of spirituality may be translated into future drug use prevention intervention programs.

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Identifying young adult substance abusers: the Rutgers Collegiate Substance Abuse Screening Test.

Cited by 15 publications

References 12 publications

Predicting Verbal Coercion Following Sexual Refusal During a Hookup: Diverging Gender Patterns

Predicting Verbal Coercion Following Sexual Refusal During a Hookup: Diverging Gender Patterns

Relations of social anxiety variables to drinking motives, drinking quantity and frequency, and alcohol-related problems in undergraduates

Non Drug Use- and Drug Use-Specific Spirituality as One-Year Predictors of Drug Use Among High-Risk Youth

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