Role of general and specific competence skills in protecting inner-city adolescents from alcohol use

Journal of Studies on Alcohol

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 379-386

  Epstein, Jennifer A ^a   Griffin, Kenneth W ^a   Botvin, Gilbert J ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL;

ADOLESCENT; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; ASSERTIVENESS; COMPETENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; SELF CONCEPT; SELF REPORT;

EID: 0034017703     PISSN: 0096882X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.15288/jsa.2000.61.379     Document Type: Article

References (31)

1. BENTLER, P.M. EQS Structural Equations Program Manual, Encino, CA: Multivariate Software, Inc., 1995.
2. BENTLER, P.M. AND BONETT, D.G. Significance tests and goodness of fit in the analysis of covariance structures. Psychol. Bull. 88: 588-606, 1980.
3. BOLLEN, K.A. Structural Equations with Latent Variables, New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1989.
4. BOTVIN, G.J. Principles of prevention. In: COOMBS, R.H. AND ZIEDONIS, D.M. (Eds.) Handbook on Drug Abuse Prevention: A Comprehensive Strategy to Prevent the Abuse of Alcohol and Other Drugs, Newton, MA: Allyn & Bacon, 1995, pp. 19-44.
5. BOTVIN, G.J. Preventing adolescent drug abuse through life skills training: Theory, methods and effectiveness. In: CRANE, J. (Ed.) Social Programs that Work, New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1998, pp. 225-257.
6. BOTVIN, G.J., BAKER, E., DUSENBURY, L., BOTVIN, E.M. AND DIAZ, T. Long-term follow-up results of a randomized drug abuse prevention trial in a while middle-class population. JAMA 273: 1106-1112, 1995a.
7. BOTVIN, E.M., BOTVIN, G.J., RENICK, N.L., FILAZZOLA, A.D. AND ALLEGRANTE, J.P. Adolescents' self-reports of tobacco, alcohol, and marijuana use: Examining the comparability of video tape, cartoon, and verbal bogus-pipeline procedures. Psychol. Rep. 55: 379-386, 1984.
8. BOTVIN, G.J., DUSENBURY, L., BAKER, E., JAMES-ORTIZ, S., BOTVIN, E.M. AND KERNER, J. Smoking prevention among urban minority youth: Assessing effects on outcome and mediating variables. Hlth Psychol. 11: 290-299, 1992.
9. BOTVIN, G.J., DUSENBURY, L., BAKER, E., JAMES-ORTIZ, S. AND KERNER, J. A skills training approach to smoking prevention among Hispanic youth. J. Behav. Med. 12: 279-296, 1989.
10. BOTVIN, G.J., SCHINKE, S.P., EPSTEIN, J.A., DIAZ, T. AND BOTVIN, E.M. Effectiveness of culturally focused and generic skills training approaches to alcohol and drug abuse prevention among minority adolescents: Two-year follow-up results. Psychol. Addict. Behav. 9: 183-194, 1995b.
11. DOYLE, R. Deaths caused by alcohol. Sci. Amer. 275 (6): 30-31, 1996.
12. EPSTEIN, J.A., BOTVIN, G.J., DIAZ, T. AND SCHINKE, S.P. The role of social factors and individual characteristics in promoting alcohol use among inner-city minority youths. J. Stud. Alcohol 56: 39-46, 1995.
13. FISCHHOFF, B. AND QUADREL, M.J. Adolescent alcohol decisions. Alcohol Hlth Res. World 15: 43-51, 1991.
14. GAMBRILL, E.D. AND RICHEY, C.A. An assertion inventory for use in assessment and research. Behav. Ther. 6: 550-561, 1975.
15. GRANT, B.F. AND DAWSON, D.A. Age at onset of alcohol use and its association with DSM-IV alcohol abuse and dependence: Results from the National Longitudinal Alcohol Epidemiologic Survey. J. Subst. Abuse 9: 103-110, 1997.
16. HACKBARTH, D.P., SILVERSTRI, B. AND COSPER, W. Tobacco and alcohol billboards in 50 Chicago neighborhoods: Market segmentation to sell dangerous products to the poor. J. Publ. Hlth Policy 16: 213-230, 1995.
17. HANSEN, W.B. School-based substance abuse prevention: A review of the state of the art in curriculum, 1980-1990. Hlth Educ. Res. 7: 403-430, 1992.
18. HARWOOD, H., FOUNTAIN, D. AND LIVERMORE, G. The Economic Costs of Alcohol and Drug Abuse in the United States 1992, NIH Publication No. 98-4327, Washington: Government Printing Office, 1998.
19. HERRMANN, D.S. AND MCWHIRTER, J.J. Refusal and resistance skills for children and adolescents: A selected review. J. Counsel. Devel. 75: 177-187, 1997.
20. JESSOR, R. AND JESSOR, S.L. Problem behavior and psychosocial development: A longitudinal study of youth, San Diego, CA: Academic Press, 1977.
21. JOHNSTON, L.D., O'MALLEY, P.M. AND BACHMAN, J.G. National Survey Results on Drug Use from the Monitoring the Future Study, 1975-1997, Vol. 1, NIH Publication No. 98-4345, Washington: Government Printing Office, 1998.
22. MACCALLUM, R.C., ROZNOWSKI, M. AND NECOWITZ, L.B. Model modifications in covariance 0structure analysis: The problem of capitalization on chance. Psychol. Bull. 111: 490-504, 1992.
23. MARSH, H.W., BALLA, J.R. AND MCDONALD, R.P. Goodness-of-fit indexes in confirmatory factor analysis: The effect of sample size. Psychol. Bull. 103: 391-410, 1988.
24. PAULHUS, D. Sphere-specific measures of perceived control. J. Pers. Social Psychol 44: 1253-1265, 1983.
25. RESNICOW, K. AND BOTVIN, G. School-based substance use prevention programs: Why do effects decay? Prev. Med. 22: 484-490, 1993.
26. SIIOPE, J.T., COPELAND, L.A., MAHARG, R., DIELMAN, T.E. AND BUTCHART, A.T. Assessment of adolescent refusal skills in an alcohol misuse prevention study. Hlth Educ. Q. 20: 373-390, 1993.
27. SNOW, D.L., TEBES, J.K., ARTHUR, M.W. AND TAPASAK, R.C. Two-year follow-up of a social-cognitive intervention to prevent substance use. J. Drug Educ. 22: 101-114, 1992.
28. WILLS, T.A. Stress, coping, and tobacco and alcohol use in early adolescence. In: SHIFFMAN, S. AND WILLS, T.A. (Eds.) Coping and Substance Use, San Diego, CA: Academic Press, 1985, pp. 67-94.
29. WILLS, T.A. Stress and coping in early adolescence: Relationships to substance use in urban school samples. Hlth Psychol. 5: 503-529, 1986.
30. WILLS, T.A., BAKER, E. AND BOTVIN, G.J. Dimensions of assertiveness: Differential relationships to substance use in early adolescence. J. Cons. Clin. Psychol. 57: 473-478, 1989.
31. WOTHKE, W. Longitudinal and multigroup modeling with missing data. In: LITTLE, T.D., SCHNABEL, K.U. AND BAUMERT, J. (Eds.) Modeling Longitudinal and Multiple Group Data: Practical Issues, Applied Approaches, and Specific Examples, Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, in press.