Long-term impact of Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE) - Results of a 6-year follow-up

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作者
Dukes, RL
Stein, JA
Ullman, JB
机构
[1] UNIV CALIF LOS ANGELES,DEPT PSYCHOL,LOS ANGELES,CA
[2] CALIF STATE UNIV SAN BERNARDINO,SAN BERNARDINO,CA 92407
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10.1177/0193841X9702100404
中图分类号
C [社会科学总论];
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03 ; 0303 ;
摘要
The long-term effectiveness of Drug Abuse Resistance Education (D.A.R.E.) was assessed by contrasting drug use and other D.A.R.E.-related attitudinal latent variables among 356 twelfth-grade students who had received the program in the 6th grade with 264 others who did not receive it. A prior study of these subjects when they were in 9th grade had shown no significant differences. A follow-up survey in 12th grade assessed central D.A.R.E. concepts such as self-esteem police bonds, delay of experimentation with drugs, and various forms of drug use. Although the authors found no relationship between prior D.A.R.E. participation and later alcohol use, cigarette smoking, or marijuana use in 12th grade, there was a significant relationship between earlier D.A.R.E. participation and less use of illegal, more deviant drugs (e.g., inhalants, cocaine, LSD) in a development sample but not in a validation sample. Findings from the two studies suggest a possible sleeper effect for D.A.R.E. in reference to the use of harder drugs, especially among teenage males.
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