Elvira Elek

TL;DR: Support was found for the intervention's overall effectiveness, with statistically significant effects on gateway drug use as well as norms, attitudes, and resistance strategies but with little support for the cultural matching hypothesis.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the relative influences of these three norms, as well as the moderating effects of gender and ethnicity on the concurrent substance use of 2,245 Mexican or Mexican-American students, 676 students of other Latino or multiethnic Latino origin, 756 non-Hispanic White students, and 353 African- American students.

TL;DR: Although program effects were confined to the Latino and multicultural versions, tests of their relative efficacy compared with the non-Latino version found no significant differences, including the role of school social workers in culturally grounded prevention.

TL;DR: The article demonstrates how a growth modeling approach can be used to evaluate a communication-based intervention by analyzing changes over time rather than differences between the pretest and posttest scores.

TL;DR: This study explored the underlying structure of Mexican-heritage youths’ ethnic identity and cultural/ linguistic orientation and found associations between profile endorsement and adolescents’ gender, socioeconomic status, parents’ birthplace, and visits outside the United States.