Compounding Privilege, Resilience, and Nonmedical Prescription Stimulant Use among College Students. (15th October 2022)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Holm, Abby K. Johnson; Tuthill, Shelby D.; Klein, Neelamberi D.; Wedell, Emma; Looby, Alison; Bravo, Adrian J.; Prince, Mark A.
• Is Part Of: Substance use & misuse. Volume 57:Number 12(2022)
• Page Start: 1751
• Page End: 1760
• Publication Date: 2022-10-15
• Subjects: Nonmedical prescription stimulant use -- resilience -- compounding privilege -- college students; Narcotic habit -- Periodicals; Alcoholism -- Periodicals; Substance abuse -- Periodicals; Behavior, Addictive -- Periodicals; Sustance-Related Disorders -- Periodicals; 362.2905
• DOI: 10.1080/10826084.2022.2102182
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1082-6084

Abstract

Abstract: Background : In this study, we examined why non-Hispanic White cisgender men are more likely than other subgroups to misuse prescription stimulants in college. The objective of the current study was to use a strength-based framework to examine intersectional demographic predictors. Methods : We examined gender and race/ethnicity as predictors of nonmedical prescription stimulant use (NPS) among college students. We also investigated resilience as a moderator. This report uses data from an online multisite study conducted at seven universities with 4, 764 undergraduate students (70.1% women and 52.0% People of Color). Results : We found that college students who were cisgender men and non-Hispanic White used NPS significantly more than students who identified as another gender and as People of Color. There was also a buffering effect of resilience between race/ethnicity and NPS, such that resilience predicted lower NPS for People of Color, but not non-Hispanic White people 28% of the time. Conclusions : It may be that Students of Color are more resilient than non-Hispanic White students, and this resilience is protective of NPS use in college. Importantly, a compounding-privilege and/or intersectional approach to identity is crucial to fully understanding behavior (in this case NPS) in a diversity of college students; future studies should continue to use and develop such approaches.