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Prevention Science Volume 6 Issue 2

Subject Areas: Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers - Springer Journals
ISSN: 1389-4986
SJR: 89

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Individual, Family, School, and Community Risk and Protective Factors for Depressive Symptoms in Adolescents: A Comparison of Risk Profiles for Substance Use and Depressive Symptoms

Bond, Lyndal; Toumbourou, John; Thomas, Lyndal; Catalano, Richard; Patton, George

2005 Prevention Science

doi:10.1007/s11121-005-3407-2

This study examines the relationship between adolescent depressive symptoms and risk and protective factors identified for substance use. A questionnaire, developed to measure these factors in a young person’s community, family, school, peer group, and individual characteristics for substance...
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Effects of Presenting Heavy Drinking Norms on Adolescents’ Prevalence Estimates, Evaluative Judgments, and Perceived Standards

Agostinelli, Gina; Grube, Joel

2005 Prevention Science

doi:10.1007/s11121-005-3408-1

Correcting normative information about the prevalence of heavy drinking is a key element in many prevention programs. To isolate the influence of normative information on older high school students’ (n = 230) alcohol-related judgments, the effects of delivering normative information in different...
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Intraindividual Variability of School Bonding and Adolescents’ Beliefs About the Effect of Substance Use on Future Aspirations

Henry, Kimberly; Swaim, Randall; Slater, Michael

2005 Prevention Science

doi:10.1007/s11121-005-3409-0

The study examines the dynamic relationship between school bonding, beliefs about the deleterious effects of substance use on future aspirations, and subsequent substance use among a sample of 1065 male and female middle school students. First, a mediation model was assessed. Adolescents’...
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Schools and Homes in Partnership (SHIP): Long-Term Effects of a Preventive Intervention Focused on Social Behavior and Reading Skill in Early Elementary School

Smolkowski, Keith; Biglan, Anthony; Barrera, Manuel; Taylor, Ted; Black, Carol; Blair, Jason

2005 Prevention Science

doi:10.1007/s11121-005-3410-7

This paper reports a randomized controlled trial of the effects of behavioral parenting skills training, social skills training, and supplemental reading instruction on the social behavior of early elementary school children (K through 3). We selected children based on teacher-rated aggressive...
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Ethnic Differences in Relationships Between Risk Factors and Adolescent Binge Drinking: A National Study

Bersamin, Melina; Paschall, Mallie; Flewelling, Robert

2005 Prevention Science

doi:10.1007/s11121-005-3411-6

This study examines ethnic differences in relationships between a large number of risk factors and adolescent binge drinking with data collected from 14 to 17 year olds who participated in the 1999 National Household Survey on Drug Abuse (NHSDA). Logistic regression analyses were conducted to...
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Acculturation, Income, Education, Safety Belt Use, and Fatal Motor Vehicle Crashes in California

Romano, Eduardo; Tippetts, Scott; Blackman, Kenneth; Voas, Robert

2005 Prevention Science

doi:10.1007/s11121-005-3412-5

This paper investigates the role that acculturation, income, and education play in safety belt nonuse among Californian drivers involved in fatal Motor Vehicle Crashes (MVCs). To achieve this goal, measures of acculturation, income, and education were stochastically incorporated into the Fatality...

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