Flavio F. Marsiglia

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: Results indicate that youth had significantly higher scores on the familismo scale whereas parents reported higher levels of perceived discrimination, and Implications for practice are discussed.

TL;DR: The authors compared the explanatory power of ethnic labels (African American, non-Hispanic White, Mexican American, and mixed ethnicity) and two dimensions of ethnic identity in predicting drug use, focusing on perceived ethnically consistent behavior, speech, and looks, while measuring a sense of ethnic pride.

TL;DR: Development of the keepin' it R.E.A.L.L., a curriculum serving ethnically diverse seventh grade students residing in a large southwestern city, is described, focusing on the methods used to ensure cultural grounding.

TL;DR: Positive ethnic identity was associated with less substance use and stronger antidrug norms in the sample overall, and the apparently protective effects of positive ethnic identity were generally stronger for non-Hispanic White respondents (a numerical minority group in this sample) than for members of ethnic minority groups.