The current study seeks to examine the relationship between family struggles, as measured by social class and parental marital status, and substance use among first-generation college students. 902 students from the University of Central Florida participated in an online questionnaire that assessed their social class, parents’ marital status, drug and alcohol use, as well as demographic variables. Results indicated a significant positive correlation between substance use and social class as well as generational status. Males were also more likely to use drugs and alcohol than females. A regression analysis indicated social class, gender, junior and senior academic years were all identified as significant predictors of drug and alcohol use, whereas college student generational status, parents’ marital status, freshmen and sophomore academic years were not. There are various possible explanations that may account for the reasoning behind first-generation students not being vulnerable to substance use, including extensive stressors specific to that population as discussed with previous literature. The findings of the current study can be implicated throughout counseling centers and prevention programs among college campuses in order to decrease the high prevalence of substance use among college students and prevent negative consequences.

MAIA, Dália Maria Bezerra. Brigas de famílias: tramas de sociabilidades no sertão do Ceará. 2008. 157f. Dissertação (Mestrado em Sociologia) – Universidade Federal do Ceará, Departamento de Ciências Sociais, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Sociologia, Fortaleza-CE, 2008. / Submitted by Liliane oliveira (morena.liliane@hotmail.com) on 2011-11-22T13:41:48Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2008_DIS_DMBMaia_noPW.pdf: 3062000 bytes, checksum: ccac17249ff33f06dddd5c2ab9c57741 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Maria Josineide Góis(josineide@ufc.br) on 2011-11-23T13:24:41Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 2008_DIS_DMBMaia_noPW.pdf: 3062000 bytes, checksum: ccac17249ff33f06dddd5c2ab9c57741 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2011-11-23T13:24:41Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2008_DIS_DMBMaia_noPW.pdf: 3062000 bytes, checksum: ccac17249ff33f06dddd5c2ab9c57741 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008 / This dissertation shows a reflection on family struggles in the sertão of Ceará. Comprehended as a particular type of conflict, these struggles are characterized by the use of physical violence for family groups (composed of individuals who may be or may not be connected by consanguinity) as a way of reaction to an affront and execution of vengeance. In the comprehension of this phenomenon, I tried to consider the family struggles not through a plenary or systemic vision, but from the social actors‘ point of view, which I tried to apprehend in my field research realized mainly in one of the municipalities located in the Valley of Jaguaribe River. I was interested in showing how people live, think and concede a sense to these experiences of conflict. I also tried to understand, through the narrative of these struggles, how these disputes interfere and sometimes help to shape the individuals‘ relations of sociability in that social universe. / Esta dissertação apresenta uma reflexão sobre as brigas de famílias no sertão do Ceará. Entendidas como um tipo específico de conflito, essas brigas caracterizam-se pelo uso da violência física por parte de grupos familiares (compostos por indivíduos que podem estar ou não ligados por consangüinidade) como forma de reação a uma afronta e execução de uma vingança. Na compreensão desse fenômeno procurei considerar as brigas de famílias não através de uma visão totalizante ou sistêmica do mesmo, mas a partir do ponto de vista dos atores sociais, que busquei apreender em meu trabalho de campo realizado, especialmente, em um dos municípios situados no vale do rio Jaguaribe. Interessava-me mostrar como as pessoas vivenciam, pensam, concedem sentido a essas experiências de conflitos. Procurei entender também, através das narrativas dessas brigas, como tais disputas interferem e por vezes ajudam a conformar as relações de sociabilidades dos indivíduos daquele universo social.