I Played in the N.F.L. It Needs Way More Than a Black Anthem. If the league wants to show its commitment to its players, it should hire and promote more Black coaches and executives.
Alisa Garner, a clinical psychology doctoral student who works with Greg Stuart, received a prestigious national three-year F31 National Research Service Award (NRSA) from NIAAA of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to support her dissertation research titled “Extending a Risk-taking Model of Alcohol-facilitated Consensual and Sexually Coercive Hook-up Behaviors Using a Daily Diary Design among College Men.” The grant also includes funds for a stipend and tuition.
Project Summary
Hook-up behaviors (HUBs; i.e., sexual activity outside an exclusive relationship with no mutual expectation of romantic commitment) are a prevalent problem on college campuses partly due to their association with alcohol use and sexual assault. HUBs and sexual assault frequently co-occur, and HUBs are positively associated with college men’s sexual assault perpetration. Prior research supports the relationship between alcohol use and HUBs, as well as sexual aggression perpetration; however, there is limited understanding into individual difference factors that increase the risk of alcohol-facilitated consensual and coercive HUBs.
Alcohol Myopia Theory (AMT) suggests alcohol intoxication creates a narrowing of attention to salient environmental factors (e.g., rewarding sexual experiences). The dual systems model of risk-taking suggests that socio-emotional system factors such as positive urgency (i.e., a tendency to give into impulses when positive affect is high) and the expectation that alcohol use will result in positive sexual outcomes, such as heightened intimacy and/or arousal, (i.e., alcohol-related sexual expectancies) increases sexual risk-taking. An integrated AMT and dual systems model would suggest that the risk of alcohol-facilitated HUBs may depend on the presence of distal socio-emotional system factors that increase the likelihood of sexual risk-taking behaviors. The overall objective of the proposed study is to elucidate the temporal associations between alcohol use and engagement in consensual and coercive HUBs among college men, and to identify the moderating effects of positive urgency and alcohol-related sexual expectancies, utilizing a daily diary design. No prior research has examined the relationship between college men’s alcohol use and HUBs and whether positive urgency and alcohol-related sexual expectancies moderate the temporal association between alcohol and HUBs.
Guided by the dual systems model and AMT, the proposed study will advance the understanding and prevention of sexually risky behaviors. The specific aims of this proposed study are to: (1) evaluate whether trait positive urgency moderates the temporal association between alcohol use and HUB and (2) evaluate whether alcohol-related sex expectancies moderate the temporal association between alcohol and HUBs. The proposed study will examine these factors in 250 college men as they relate to the under-explored sexual activity of HUBs, utilizing an innovative daily diary design. The proposed study is significant because it will inform researchers and prevention and intervention programs by identifying specific risk factors to ad-dress in the prevention of alcohol-facilitated consensual and coercive HUBs.
The American Psychological Association Interdisciplinary Minority Fellowship Program (IMFP) awarded LaTrice Wright a $23,000 fellowship for the 2020-2021 academic year. Wright, a counseling graduate student who works with Jioni Lewis and Kirsten Gonzalez, will receive training and support in working with community-based ethnic and racial minority populations as part of this fellowship
The new fellowship program is designed for master’s and doctoral students in psychology, nursing, social work, marriage and family therapy, mental health counseling, and substance use and addictions counseling whose training prepares them for careers in behavioral health services for ethnic and racial minorities.