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Gender Differences in Drug Resistance Skills of Youth in Guanajuato, Mexico
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Kulis, Stephen; Marsiglia, Flavio F.; Ayers, Stephanie L.; Calderon-Tena, Carlos O.; Nuno-Gutierrez, Bertha L. – Journal of Primary Prevention, 2011
Research is limited or absent on Mexican adolescents' exposure to substance offers, ways of dealing with these offers, and possible gender differences in responses to offers. Extending U.S.-based research, this study examines how youth living in the Mexican state of Guanajuato employ the four drug resistance strategies--refuse, explain, avoid, and…
Descriptors: Drug Education, Marijuana, Prevention, Foreign Countries
Preferred Drug Resistance Strategies of Urban American Indian Youth of the Southwest
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Kulis, Stephen; Brown, Eddie F. – Journal of Drug Education, 2011
This study explored the drug resistance strategies that urban American Indian adolescents consider the best and worst ways to respond to offers of alcohol, cigarettes, and marijuana. Focus group data were collected from 11 female and 9 male American Indian adolescents attending urban middle schools in the southwest. The youth were presented with…
Descriptors: Prevention, Urban American Indians, Focus Groups, Adolescents
The Influence of Linguistic Acculturation and Gender on the Initiation of Substance Use among Mexican Heritage Preadolescents in the Borderlands
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Marsiglia, Flavio F.; Yabiku, Scott T.; Kulis, Stephen; Nieri, Tanya; Parsai, Monica; Becerra, David – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2011
This article examined the impact of linguistic acculturation and gender on the substance use initiation of a sample of 1,473 Mexican heritage preadolescents attending 30 public schools in Phoenix, Arizona. It was hypothesized that linguistic acculturation operates differently as a risk or protective factor for young children than for older youth.…
Descriptors: Sociolinguistics, Acculturation, Preadolescents, Mexican Americans
A Six-Wave Study of the Consistency of Mexican/Mexican American Preadolescents' Lifetime Substance Use Reports
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Wagstaff, David A.; Kulis, Stephen; Elek, Elvira – Journal of Drug Education, 2009
In the Fall of 2004, 1,948 5th grade students from Phoenix, AZ enrolled in an evaluation of a school-based, substance use prevention intervention. To assess the consistency of Mexican and Mexican-American students' self-reports of lifetime substance use, the present study analyzed data reported by 1,418 students who reported Mexican ancestry and…
Descriptors: Intervention, Mexican Americans, Prevention, Preadolescents
Culturally Specific Youth Substance Abuse Resistance Skills: Applicability across the U.S.-Mexico Border
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Marsiglia, Flavio F.; Kulis, Stephen; Rodriguez, Gregorio Martinez; Becerra, David; Castillo, Jason – Research on Social Work Practice, 2009
This article reports on the prevalence and frequency of use of a set of drug-resistance strategies among a sample of Mexican adolescents. The keepin' it REAL (refuse, explain, avoid, and leave) strategies are part of a model drug-prevention intervention program originally developed by and for youth in the United States. The present study tests the…
Descriptors: Substance Abuse, Intervention, Drug Education, Adolescents
Mexican/Mexican American Adolescents and "Keepin' It REAL": An Evidence-Based Substance Use Prevention Program
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Kulis, Stephen; Marsiglia, Flavio F.; Elek, Elvira; Dustman, Patricia; Wagstaff, David A.; Hecht, Michael L. – Children & Schools, 2005
A randomized trial tested the efficacy of three curriculum versions teaching drug resistance strategies, one modeled on Mexican American culture; another modeled on European American and African American culture; and a multicultural version. Self-report data at baseline and 14 months post-intervention were obtained from 3,402 Mexican heritage…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, Prevention, Social Work, Marijuana