TY - JOUR
T1 - Resistance-Skills Training and Onset of Alcohol Use
T2 - Evidence for Beneficial and Potentially Harmful Effects in Public Schools and in Private Catholic Schools
AU - Donaldson, Stewart I.
AU - Graham, John W.
AU - Piccinin, Andrea M.
AU - Hansen, William B.
PY - 1995/1/1
Y1 - 1995/1/1
N2 - Recent research suggests that the success of social influence prevention programs is due to enhancing an adolescent's ability to resist passive social pressure (e.g., social modeling and overestimation of peer use), and is not due to teaching refusal skills for combating active social pressure (i.e., alcohol and drug offers). Using 4 waves of longitudinal data (collected in the 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th grades) from 11,995 students participating in the Adolescent Alcohol Prevention Trial, resistance-skills training was found to be an effective strategy for preventing the onset of alcohol use when program assumptions were met. However, a counterproductive effect was found for adolescents attending public school who received a resistance training only condition.
AB - Recent research suggests that the success of social influence prevention programs is due to enhancing an adolescent's ability to resist passive social pressure (e.g., social modeling and overestimation of peer use), and is not due to teaching refusal skills for combating active social pressure (i.e., alcohol and drug offers). Using 4 waves of longitudinal data (collected in the 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th grades) from 11,995 students participating in the Adolescent Alcohol Prevention Trial, resistance-skills training was found to be an effective strategy for preventing the onset of alcohol use when program assumptions were met. However, a counterproductive effect was found for adolescents attending public school who received a resistance training only condition.
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U2 - 10.1037/0278-6133.14.4.291
DO - 10.1037/0278-6133.14.4.291
M3 - Article
C2 - 7556032
AN - SCOPUS:0029337951
VL - 14
SP - 291
EP - 300
JO - Health Psychology
JF - Health Psychology
SN - 0278-6133
IS - 4
ER -