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Peer reviewedSigelman, Carol K.; Weir, Catherine; Davies, Elizabeth; Silk, Alyson – Journal of Drug Education, 2002
Positive and negative expectancies regarding the behavioral effects of alcohol and cocaine were assessed and used to predict attitudes toward their use across four age groups. Children and adolescents appeared to overgeneralize their beliefs about alcohol to a less familiar drug, cocaine, perceiving the effects of the two drugs similarly. Only…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cocaine, Drinking, Drug Education
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 linkSigelman, Carol K.; Rinehart, Cheryl S.; Sorongon, Alberto G.; Bridges, Lisa J.; Wirtz, Philip W. – Health Education Research, 2004
This study examined whether two versions of a drug and alcohol curriculum explaining how substances affect behavior and health, one version more causally coherent than the other, were more effective than a control curriculum on disease in changing school-age children's (N = 327) beliefs and attitudes regarding cocaine and alcohol. Few differences…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Health Education, Cocaine, Prevention
