Research
The following selection of research relates to campus-based alcohol, other drug abuse, and violence (AODV) prevention, with a special focus on the scope of the problem and promising strategies and interventions. The citations are compiled on a monthly basis from 15 peer-reviewed journals serving as the primary source of college AODV prevention articles and from keyword searches of online research databases.
Parents
Mallet, K. A., Ray, A. E., Turrisi, R., Belden, C., Bachrach, R. L., & Larimer, M. E. (2010). Age of drinking onset as a moderator of the efficacy of parent-based, brief motivational, and combined intervention approaches to reduce drinking and consequences among college students. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 34(7), 1154-1161.
Testa, M., Hoffman, J. H., Livingston, J. A., & Turrisi, R. (2010) Preventing college women’s sexual victimization through parent based intervention: A randomized controlled trial. Prevention Science, Online February 2010.
Wood, M. D., Fairlie, A. M., Fernandez, A. C., Borsari, B., Capone, C., Laforge, R., & Carmona-Barros, R. (2010). Brief motivational and parent interventions for college students: A randomized factorial study. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 78(3), 349-361.
Boyle, J. & Boekeloo, B. (2009). The association between parent communication and college freshmen’s alcohol use. Journal of Drug Education, 39(2), 113-131.
Chawla, N., Neighbors, C., Logan, D., Lewis, M. A., & Fossos, N. (2009). Perceived approval of friends and parents as mediators of the relationship between self-determination and drinking. Journal of Studies on Alcohol & Drugs, 70(1), 92-100.
Walls, T.A., Fairlie, A.M., & Wood, M.D. (2009). Parents do matter: A longitudinal two-part mixed model of early college alcohol participation and intensity. Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, 70(6), 908-918.
Abar, C., & Turrisi, R. (2008). How important are parents during the college years? A longitudinal perspective of indirect influences parents yield on their college teens' alcohol use. Addictive Behaviors, 33(10), 1360-1368.
Capone, C., & Wood, M. D. (2008). Density of familial alcoholism and its effects on alcohol use and problems in college students. Alcoholism, Clinical and Experimental Research, 32(8), 1451-1458.
Kelley, M. L., French, A., Schroeder, V., Bountress, K., Fals-Stewart, W., Steer, K., & Cooke, C. G. (2008). Mother-daughter and father-daughter attachment of college student ACOAs. Substance Use & Misuse, 43(11), 1562-1573.
Marmion, S. L., & Lundberg-Love, P. K. (2008). PTSD symptoms in college students exposed to interparental violence: Are they comparable to those that result from child physical and sexual abuse? Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment & Trauma, 17(3), 263-278.
Montgomery, C., Fisk, J. E., & Craig, L. (2008). The effects of perceived parenting style on the propensity for illicit drug use: The importance of parental warmth and control. Drug & Alcohol Review, 27(6), 640-649.
Padilla-Walker, L. M., Nelson, L. J., Madsen, S. D., & Barry, C. M. (2008). The role of perceived parental knowledge on emerging adults' risk behaviors. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 37(7), 847-859.
Simons, L. G., Burt, C. H., & Simons, R. L. (2008). A test of explanations for the effect of harsh parenting on the perpetration of dating violence and sexual coercion among college males. Violence & Victims, 23(1), 66-82.
Wetherill, R. R., & Fromme, K. (2007). Perceived awareness and caring influences alcohol use by high school and college students. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 21(2), 147-154.
Fischer, J. L., Forthun, L. F., Pidcock, B. W., & Dowd, D. A. (2007). Parent relationships, emotion regulation, psychosocial maturity and college student alcohol use problems. Journal of Youth & Adolescence, 36(7), 912-926.
Greene, H., & Greene, M. (2007). Taking a Stand Against Drugs and Alcohol. University Business, 10(2), 23-24.
Shutt, M. D., Oswalt, S. B., & Cooper, D. L. (2006). Parent misperceptions of incoming student use of alcohol and other drugs. Journal of College Student Development, 47(5), 577–585.
Wagenaar, A.C., & Toomey, T.L. (2002). Effects of minimum drinking age laws: Review and analyses of the literature from 1960 to 2000. Journal of Studies on Alcohol, Supplement 14, 206–225.