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We quantitatively investigated how susceptible university students are to engaging in activity that could lead to County Lines involvement by asking them to rate their willingness to participate in five hypothetical scenarios typical of County Lines engagement and one control scenario (bit-coin scam). About 62% of the 116 students were willing to engage compared to only 3% in the control scenario. Participant demographics, drug abuse, mental health, financial distress, and materialism were also measured and significantly predicted willingness to engage with the scenarios with weak to moderate effect. Findings suggest that university students are vulnerable to engaging in County Lines but the risk factors in the literature may not be good predictors of determining vulnerability. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Kretschmer and Storm (2017) previously examined the five existential concerns (death, isolation, identity, freedom, and meaning) and their statistical relationship to depressive symptoms. This study expands the previous literature by exploring whether or not the findings extend to other domains of well-being. One hundred and twenty-four participants completed a questionnaire battery to assess the existential concerns and their relationship to outcomes on the Clinical Outcomes in Routine Evaluation-Outcome Measure (CORE-OM). Findings indicated that the existential domains are inter-related and all domains other than freedom were predictive of scores on the CORE-OM. This study supports the notion that existential dynamics might be fundamental in the emergence of psychological, social and physical well-being. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]