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  • Psychology
  • Higher Education Studies
  • Neuroscience

Background:

  • Self-regulated learning (SRL) and academic challenges significantly influence student success.
  • Emerging adults' frequent cannabis and alcohol consumption can impair cognitive functions, negatively impacting academic performance.
  • Limited research exists on the specific effects of substance use on university students' engagement with SRL practices and academic challenges.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the associations between cannabis and alcohol use and university students' engagement with SRL practices and academic challenges.
  • To explore how substance use influences task understanding, metacognitive monitoring, and various academic challenges faced by undergraduate students.

Main Methods:

  • Survey data collected from 1,247 first- and second-year undergraduate students at five Canadian universities.
  • Statistical analyses examined the relationships between self-reported cannabis and alcohol use and measures of SRL engagement and academic challenges.

Main Results:

  • Cannabis use was linked to lower task understanding and metacognitive monitoring, and increased challenges in goal/time management, cognitive, social-emotional, metacognitive, and motivational domains.
  • Alcohol use was associated with reduced goal/time management and task understanding, but increased social engagement practices and challenges in social-emotional and initiating-sustaining engagement.
  • Findings indicate distinct impacts of cannabis and alcohol on different facets of academic engagement and challenges.

Conclusions:

  • Substance use, specifically cannabis and alcohol, presents significant risks to key precursors of academic success in university students.
  • Understanding these substance-specific effects is crucial for developing targeted interventions to support emerging adults transitioning to higher education.
  • The study underscores the need to address substance use as a factor influencing academic performance and engagement among university students.