BIO

Jenna Valdemar is a first year College of Business student at the incomparable Florida State University. Her undergraduate degree will highlight her expertise in Human Resource Management and Marketing. After she graduates, she plans on working as an executive at a top fortune 500 company. She enjoys watching films in her free time and would love to work in the entertainment industry in the long term. Jenna is a young, tenacious, ambitious and incredibly creative student, who enjoys exploring new passions like music, video editing and more.

Alcohol and Mindfulness in African American College Students

Abstract

Project TIME is a five-year research study aimed at creating a mobile health mindfulness application that hopefully reduces stress and alcohol use in Black college students. Therefore, the project's first-year aims are to gather data and information to understand the patterns and motivations behind alcohol consumption in this population. Through the data collection process, which includes surveys, researchers can find mechanisms to limit alcohol consumption. After analyzing two measures from the survey - alcohol use and the "The Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire," a significant relationship was found between the "Acting with Awareness" subscale on the "The Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire" measure and alcohol use. Hence, components of mindfulness may be helpful in reducing alcohol use in Black college students.

Keywords: Alcohol, African American, College Student, Drinking, Mindfulness, Survey