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Volume 9, Issue 2
Concurrent Predictors of Drug Use Consequences among U.S. and Russian Adolescents
Steve Sussman, Melissa Gunning, Nadra E. Lisha, Louise A. Rohrbach, Vadim Kniazev y Radik Masagutov
We describe correlates of drug use-consequences related variables
(addiction concern, problem consequences, and drinking alcohol/using
drugs while driving) among two samples of high school students, one in
the Russian Federation (n = 365), and one in the United States (n = 965).
The correlates used in the analyses are based on the Theory of Triadic
Influence, which organizes predictors of...
Psychometric properties of the HIV/AIDS Knowledge Scale for Spanish adolescents (HIV-KS).
José P. Espada, Tania B. Huedo-Medina, Mireia Orgilés, Roberto Secades,
Rafael Ballester, y Eduardo Remor
This paper aims to describe the development process, the factor structure,
the reliability and validity of a multidimensional scale to measure
HIV/AIDS-related knowledge for adolescents (HIV/AIDS Knowledge
Scale, HIV-KS). After a pilot study of the items, a questionnaire of 28
items was administered to a sample from 14 different schools in 5 counties
in Spain. Firstly, Principal-component...
Protective factors and risk of alcohol consumption in students at the University of Huelva
Ramón Tirado Morueta, José Ignacio Aguaded Gómez & Isidro Marín Gutiérrez
The main aim of this study is to identify protective factors and risk factors
linked to alcohol consumption in university students of both sexes.
These factors were measured on the basis of a descriptive cross-sectional
study developed in 2007-2008 at the University of Huelva. In order to
analyze the relations among variables, we have used the chi-square test
of Pearson. To identify risk and...
Characteristics of effective programs for school-based prevention of drug use.
Mónica Gázquez, José A. García del Castillo, & José P. Espada
In the last two decades, many professionals have manifested the necessity
to make of the prevention a scientific discipline, in which one works
on the basis of the objective evidence, without leaving place to practical
intuitive and/or simply based on the good will. Like result, today we
have a solid empirical base about the school strategies that obtain results
in the consumption and those...
Family expressed emotion and drug use in young
Juan Antonio Becerra.
The family is the main agent of risk and protection of drug use at younger ages, especially the family emocional climate factor. Expressed emotion (EE) is a concept reflecting the emotional atmosphere of the home environment. Specific components of EE, criticism, hostility and emotional over-involvement, they are important predictors of relapse in different pathologies and drug abuse. The main...
