APS
31st APS Annual Convention · 2019
College Students and Alcohol-Related Social Media: Personalized and Powerful
- Monica Reis-Bergan
James Madison University - Sierra Swanson
James Madison University - James Howe
James Madison University - Immanuel Sutherland
James Madison University
Abstract
Social media targeted at college locations promote visual depictions of the university’s party culture. Engagement with university specific social media was positively associated with alcohol behaviors, drinking norms, alcohol identity, and fear of missing out. Frequency of viewing social media was negatively associated with perceived danger of alcohol and loneliness.
Substance Use and Abuse