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Peer reviewedBridges, Lisa J.; Sigelman, Carol K.; Brewster, Albert B.; Leach, Diane B.; Mack, Keisha L.; Rinehart, Cheryl S.; Sorongon, Alberto G. – Journal of Child and Adolescent Substance Abuse, 2003
Examines age differences in, and associations among, children's attitudes and intentions regarding alcohol and cocaine use and possible cognitive underpinnings of such orientations. Attitudes and intentions were negative and became less negative with age for alcohol, but more negative with age for cocaine. The cognitive predictors contributed to…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Childhood Attitudes, Children, Cocaine
Direct linkDavies, Elizabeth P.; Sigelman, Carol K.; Bridges, Lisa J.; Rinehart, Cheryl S.; Sorongon, Alberto G. – Applied Developmental Science, 2004
In an attempt to devise a methodology for characterizing children's intuitive theories of drug action, 217 children in Grades 1 to 6 were interviewed about how two substances, alcohol and cocaine, cause behavioral changes in their users. Measures tapped both structure (Piagetian complexity of causal reasoning, coherence, and construction of a…
Descriptors: Cocaine, Drug Abuse, Interviews, Childhood Attitudes
