Short communicationOverlapping addictions and self-esteem among college men and women
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Method
Participants were 64 male and 65 female students enrolled in a private, highly selective, urban university in the Midwest. Participants ranging in age from 18 to 24 years (M = 20.5) were nonsystematically sampled from various points on campus and asked to complete an anonymous questionnaire. To provide further anonymity, participants were not asked their ethnicity or religious preference, but the sample appeared to reflect the student population. With regard to ethnicity, the student population
Results
Support for our main hypothesis required positive correlations between the various addictive substances and activities. The average correlations (using the Fisher-Z transformation) within the four substances and within the five activities were calculated. Given our unidirectional hypothesis, one-tailed p values were used for these correlations. The relation between self-esteem and addiction was tested with two-tailed correlations, gender differences in addiction scores were explored using
Discussion
Our correlational analysis revealed a clear tendency among college students to become addicted to more than one common substance or activity. The average correlation of self-reported level of addiction was .36 within the substances and .44 within the activities, and the correlation between the substance and activity subscores was .50. These results contrast somewhat with those of Rozin and Stoess (1993). In their study, 41 of 45 correlations between different substances and activities were
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