| Literature DB >> 21552345 |
Jonathan Pettigrew1, Michelle Miller-Day, Janice Krieger, Michael L Hecht.
Abstract
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.Entities:
Year: 2011 PMID: 21552345 PMCID: PMC3088490 DOI: 10.1080/00909882.2011.556139
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Appl Commun Res ISSN: 0090-9882