TY - JOUR
T1 - Alcohol and other drug resistance strategies employed by rural adolescents
AU - Pettigrew, Jonathan
AU - Miller-Day, Michelle
AU - Krieger, Janice
AU - Hecht, Michael L.
N1 - Funding Information:
Jonathan Pettigrew is a doctoral candidate, Michelle Miller-Day is an Associate Professor, and Michael L. Hecht is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Communication Arts and Sciences at Penn State University. Janice Krieger is an Assistant Professor in the School of Communication at The Ohio State University. This paper was presented on May 29, 2009 at the Society for Prevention Research annual meeting in Washington, DC. The authors thank the students and schools who participated in this study. We are also grateful to the participants for sharing their experiences and to other members of the research team for their help with this project: M. Colby, T. Deas, A. Dossett, T. Hipper, S. Hopfer, J. Moreland, and A. Pezalla. This publication was supported by Grant Number R01DA021670 from the National Institute on Drug Abuse to The Pennsylvania State University (Michael Hecht, Principal Investigator). Its contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the views of the National Institutes of Health. Correspondence to: Jonathan Pettigrew, Department of Communication Arts and Sciences, Penn State University, 234 Sparks Building, University Park, PA 16802-5201, USA. E-mail: jup183@psu.edu
PY - 2011/5
Y1 - 2011/5
N2 - This study seeks to identify how rural adolescents make health decisions and utilize communication strategies to resist influence attempts in offers of alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs (ATOD). Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 113 adolescents from rural school districts to solicit information on ATOD norms, past ATOD experiences, and substance offer-response episodes. Rural youths' resistance strategies were similar to previous findings with urban adolescents-refuse, explain, avoid, and leave (the REAL typology)- while unique features of these strategies were identified including the importance of personal narratives, the articulation of a non user identity, and being "accountable" to self and others.
AB - This study seeks to identify how rural adolescents make health decisions and utilize communication strategies to resist influence attempts in offers of alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs (ATOD). Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 113 adolescents from rural school districts to solicit information on ATOD norms, past ATOD experiences, and substance offer-response episodes. Rural youths' resistance strategies were similar to previous findings with urban adolescents-refuse, explain, avoid, and leave (the REAL typology)- while unique features of these strategies were identified including the importance of personal narratives, the articulation of a non user identity, and being "accountable" to self and others.
KW - Adolescents
KW - Resistance Skills Training
KW - Rural Health
KW - Substance Use
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U2 - 10.1080/00909882.2011.556139
DO - 10.1080/00909882.2011.556139
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:79953888348
SN - 0090-9882
VL - 39
SP - 103
EP - 122
JO - Journal of Applied Communication Research
JF - Journal of Applied Communication Research
IS - 2
ER -