Alcohol Use in Emerging Adulthood: Can Moffitt's Developmental Theory Help Us Understand Binge Drinking Among College Students?

References

• Akers, R. L. (1985). Deviant behavior: A social learning approach. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth.
   Google Scholar
• Arnett, J. J. (2000). Emerging adulthood: A theory of development from the late teens through the twenties. American Psychologist, 55, 469–480.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Arnett, J. J. (2005). The developmental context of substance use in emerging adulthood. Journal of Drug Issues, 35, 235–254.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Arnett, J. J. (2010). Adolescence and emerging adulthood: A cultural approach. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.
   Google Scholar
• Barnes, G. M., Welte, J. W., Hoffman, J. H., & Tidwell, M. O. (2010). Comparisons of gambling and alcohol use among college students and noncollege young people in the United States. Journal of American College Health, 58, 443–452.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Barnes, J. C. & Beaver, K. M. (2010). An empirical examination of adolescence-limited offending: A direct test of Moffitt's maturity gap thesis. Journal of Criminal Justice, 38, 1176–1185.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Borsari, B., & Carey, K. B. (2001). Peer influence on college drinking: A review of the research. Journal of Substance Abuse, 13, 391–424.
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Borsari, B., & Carey, K. B. (2003). Descriptive and injunctive norms in college drinking: A meta-analytic integration. Journal of Studies on Alcohol, 64, 331–341.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Gfroerer, J. C., Greenblatt, J. C., & Wright, D. A. (1997). Substance use in the U.S. college population: Differences according to educational status and living arrangement. American Journal of Public Health, 87, 62–65.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Goldman, M. S., Boyd, G. M., & Faden, V. (2002). College drinking, what it is, and what to do about it: A review of the state of the science. Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, 63(Suppl. 14), 5.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Hirschi, T. (1969). Causes of delinquency. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
   Google Scholar
• Johnston, L. D., O'Malley, P. M., Bachman, J. G., & Schulenberg, J. E. (2013). Monitoring the Future national survey results on drug use, 1975–2012: Volume 2, College students and adults ages 19–50. Ann Arbor, MI: Institute for Social Research, The University of Michigan.
   Google Scholar
• Kilmer, J. R., Cronce, J. M., & Larimer, M. E. (2014). College student drinking research from the 1940s to the future: Where we have been and where we are going. Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, 75(Suppl. 17), 26–35.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Loeber, R., & LeBlanc, M. (1990). Toward a developmental criminology. In M. Tonry & N. Morris (Eds.), Crime and justice (vol. 12, pp. 375–473). Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
   Google Scholar
• Moffitt, T. E. (1993). Adolescence-limited and life-course-persistent antisocial behavior: A developmental taxonomy. Psychological Review, 100, 674–701.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Moffitt, T. E. (2008). A review of research on the taxonomy of life-course persistent versus adolescence-limited antisocial behavior. In F. T. Cullen, J. P. Wright, & K. R. Blevins (Eds.), Taking stock: The status of criminological theory (pp. 277–311). New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers.
   Google Scholar
• Moffitt, T. E., Caspi, A., Harrington, H., & Milne, B. J. (2002). Males on the life-course-persistent and adolescence-limited antisocial pathways: Follow-up at age 26 years. Development and Psychopathology, 14, 179–207.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Nagin, D. S., & Land, K. C. (1993). Age, criminal careers, and population heterogeneity: Specification and estimation of a nonparametric, mixed, poison model. Criminology, 31, 327–326.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Neighbors, C., Lee, C. M., Lewis, M. A., Fossos, N., & Larimer, M. E. (2007). Are social norms the best predictor of outcomes among heavy-drinking college students? Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, 68, 556–565.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Perkins, H. W. (2007). Misperceptions of peer drinking norms in Canada: Another look at the “reign of error” and its consequences among college students. Addictive Behaviors, 32, 2645–2656.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Piquero, A. R., & Brezina, T. (2001). Testing Moffitt's account of adolescence-limited delinquency. Criminology, 39, 353–370.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Rimal, R., & Real, K. (2003). Understanding the influence of perceived norms on behavior. Communication Theory, 13, 184–203.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. (2013). Results from the 2012 National Survey on Drug Use and Health: Summary of National Findings, NSDUH Series H-46, HHS Publication No. (SMA) 13-4795. Rockville, MD: Author.
   Google Scholar
• Vander Ven, T. (2011). Getting wasted: Why college students drink too much and party so hard. New York, NY: New York University Press.
   Google Scholar
• Vespa, J., Lewis, J. M., & Kreider, R. M. (2013). America's families and living arrangements. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Commerce.
   Google Scholar
• Wechsler, H., & Nelson, T. F. (2008). What we have learned from the Harvard School of Public Health College Alcohol Study: Focusing attention on college student alcohol consumption and the environmental conditions that promote it. Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, 69, 481–490.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• White, H. R., McMorris, B. J., Catalano, R. F., Fleming, C. B., Haggerty, K. P., & Abbott, R. D. (2006). Increases in alcohol and marijuana use during the transition out of high school into emerging adulthood: The effects of leaving home, going to college, and high school protective factors. Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, 67, 810–822.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar