Participants were 418 first year students at a large, public mid-western university. Seventy-five percent of the sample was female and 25% male. Age ranged from 18 to 32 (mean = 18.2, SD = 0.76); 88% of the sample was Caucasian, 8% African American, 2% Asian American, 1% Hispanic American, and 2% Other. Of the 418 students who began the study, 293 (70%) completed both waves of the study.
