Polish students and alcohol : : conditions and consequences / / Jacek Pyżalski.

• VerfasserIn: Pyżalski, Jacek,
• Place / Publishing House: Göttingen, Germany : : V & R Unipress,, [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (221 pages)

The authors present the issue of problematic alcohol drinking in the population of university students in the Polish context based on large scale (N=4503) survey research. The study starts with the description of methodology utilized in the study that was the basis of the publication (sampling, research questions and tools, methodology of data gathering) as well as the description of early adulthood developmental period and then moves to the background description of the social situation of Polish students. The results of the study are presented and interpreted with subsequent order: scale of alcohol consumption and alcohol-related problems; health-behaviours and health-status; stress and depressive disorders; self-esteem; online activity; social engagement; and identity problem solving.

Table of Contents

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Body -- Jacek Pyżalski: Introduction and Methodology -- Our Survey Methods -- The Objective of the Project -- Survey Questions and Hypotheses -- Description of the Survey Sample -- Gender -- Age of respondents -- Survey procedure -- Statistical calculations -- Survey tools -- 1. Scales of the frequency of alcohol intake and tobacco smoking -- 2. Scales of addiction to alcohol and problem drinking: -- The Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test-Consumption (AUDIT-C) -- Rapid Alcohol Problem Screening (RAPS4) -- Scale of binge drinking -- 3. Engagement in risky and prosocial behaviours on the Internet -- Models of the Internet use -- Scale of Problematic Internet Use (PIU) -- The extended Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support (MSPSS) -- 4. Engagement in traditional risky behaviours under the influence of alcohol -- 5. A shortened version of the Kutcher Adolescent Depression Scale (KADS) -- 6. Aaron T. Beck's Depression Inventory -- 7. Positive Health Behaviours Scale (PHBS) -- 8. Health self-assessment scale -- 9. The PSS test - Perceived Stress Scale -- 10. Identity Style Inventory -- 11. Social and Civic Engagement Scale (SCES) -- 12. Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (SES) -- Ewa Karmolińska-Jagodzik / Natalia Walter: Description of the early adulthood period -- Intellectual development -- Emotional development -- Social development and family life -- Psychosexual development and intimate relationships -- Professional career and life plans -- Mateusz Marciniak / Sylwia Jaskulska: The situation of students in Poland -- Students in the perspective of social development -- University as the context of student development -- Students in Poland - selected statistics -- Jacek Pyżalski: Alcohol intake by students and alcohol-related problems -- Large alcohol intake at one sitting.

The AUDIT-C results -- The RAPS-4 test results -- Therapy or seeking advice in connection with addiction to alcohol -- Problems related to the use of alcohol and narcotics -- Jacek Pyżalski: Other health-related behaviours of students -- Tobacco smoking -- The threat of risky drinking/addiction versus tobacco smoking -- Ewa Karmolińska-Jagodzik: The ability of students to cope with stress and the abuse of alcohol -- Physiology of stress -- Strategies of coping with stress -- Stress and the abuse of alcohol -- Summary -- Ewa Karmolińska-Jagodzik: Depressive disorders among the surveyed students -- A historical outline -- Causes of depression from the contemporary perspective -- Depression in DSM-5 -- Symptoms masking depression -- Depression and alcohol -- Survey results -- Analysis of the KADS test results -- Depressive disorders in correlation with independent variables -- Depressive disorders and gender -- Depressive disorders and the place of residence -- Depression and family relationships -- Depression versus financial and occupational situation -- Depressive disorders and alcohol intake -- Conclusion -- Sylwia Jaskulska: Students self-esteem, health behaviours and risky behaviours -- Self-esteem in a psychological perspective -- Self-esteem and health behaviours of students -- Self-esteem and risky behaviours -- Self-esteem of students and its conditions -- Self-esteem of students versus problem drinking and potential depression -- Natalia Walter / Jacek Pyżalski: The activity of students on the Internet -- The use of the Internet by university students - the research overview -- Problematic Internet Use (PIU) -- Online threats -- Social functioning on the Internet -- Problematic Internet Use by students -- Online social support and prosocial activity of students.

Mateusz Marciniak: Social and civic engagement of students versus risky behaviours -- Social and civic engagement in the concept of social capital and civic society -- Social and civic engagement of young people in the context of risky behaviours -- The degree of social and civic engagement -- The degree of social and civic engagement versus problem drinking - correlations -- Agnieszka Cybal-Michalska: Identity problem solving by students -- Basic recommendations of preventive actions -- Sources -- Annex -- Survey Questionnaire.