Differential Impact of Three Alcohol Prevention Curricula on Hypothesized Mediating Variables

Wb, Hansen; Jw, Graham; Bh, Wolkenstein; Bz, Lundy; Pearson, Jennifer; Br, Flay; Ca, Johnson

doi:10.2190/flq5-9knj-92th-wcdf

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“…The third condition, Normative Education (NORM), included four lessons about consequences and five lessons that corrected erroneous perceptions of prevalence and acceptability of alcohol and drug use among peers and established a conservative normative school climate regarding substance use. The fourth condition (COMBINED) included three lessons about consequences, three and one-half lessons teaching resistance skills, and three and one-half lessons establishing conservative norms (for details of program content, see Hansen et al, 1988a.…”

Section: Experimental Designmentioning

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Testing the generalizability of intervening mechanism theories: Understanding the effects of adolescent drug use prevention interventions

1994

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Outcome research has shown that drug prevention programs based on theories of social influence often prevent the onset of adolescent drug use. However, little is known empirically about the processes through which they have their effects. The purpose of the present study was to evaluate intervening mechanism theories of two program models for preventing the onset of adolescent drug use. Analyses based on a total of 3077 fifth graders participating in the Adolescent Alcohol Prevention Trial revealed that both normative education and resistance training activated the causal processes they targeted. While beliefs about prevalence and acceptability significantly mediated the effects of normative education on subsequent adolescent drug use, resistance skills did not significantly predict subsequent drug use. More impressively, this pattern of results was virtually the same across sex, ethnicity, context (public versus private school students), drugs (alcohol, cigarettes, and marijuana) and levels of risk and was durable across time. These findings strongly suggest that successful social influence-based prevention programs may be driven primarily by their ability to foster social norms that reduce an adolescent's social motivation to begin using alcohol, cigarettes, and marijuana.

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Section: Experimental Designmentioning

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Testing the generalizability of intervening mechanism theories: Understanding the effects of adolescent drug use prevention interventions

1994

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“…Hansen et al (1988) found that information about relatively immediate consequences had greater effect than information about long-term consequences. In addition, adolescents are more likely to be suspicious of information presented in an obviously one-sided and biased manner than information presented in a balanced and neutral manner (Botvin & Willis, 1987).…”

Section: Primary Preventionmentioning

confidence: 92%

Crisis Intervention with Adolescents with Learning Disabilities

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2017

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“…The WSPT curriculum was based on substance abuse prevention program named Project SMART, which was found to be effective in Southern California, Kansas/Missouri, and Indiana (Graham, Johnson, Hansen, Flay, & Gee, 1990;Hansen et al, 1988;MacKinnon et al, 1991;Pentz et al, 1989). Project SMART and the WSPT program aimed to foster an antismoking social norm among adolescents and present the serious social and physical consequences of smoking (Chou et al, 2006).…”

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confidence: 99%

Evaluating Depressive Symptom Interactions on Adolescent Smoking Prevention Program Mediators: A Mediated Moderation Analysis

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Nicotine & Tobacco Research

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Introduction: Smoking prevention interventions have been shown to be effective in reducing smoking prevalence in the United States. Further work is needed to address smoking in China, where over one third of the world's current smokers reside. China, with more than 60% of the male population being smokers, also presents a unique opportunity to test cognitive processes involved in depression, social influences, and smoking. Adolescents at-risk for developing depression may process social information differently from low-risk counterparts. Methods:The Wuhan Smoking Prevention Trial was a schoolbased longitudinal randomized controlled trial aimed at preventing initiation and escalation of adolescent smoking behaviors. Thousand three hundred and ninety-one male seventh-grade students were assessed with a 200-item paperand-pencil baseline survey, and it was readministered 1 year later following program implementation.

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Differential Impact of Three Alcohol Prevention Curricula on Hypothesized Mediating Variables

Cited by 74 publications

References 10 publications

Testing the generalizability of intervening mechanism theories: Understanding the effects of adolescent drug use prevention interventions

Testing the generalizability of intervening mechanism theories: Understanding the effects of adolescent drug use prevention interventions

Crisis Intervention with Adolescents with Learning Disabilities

Evaluating Depressive Symptom Interactions on Adolescent Smoking Prevention Program Mediators: A Mediated Moderation Analysis

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