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Cook, Sharon Anne – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2008
One route to uncovering schooling's goals for an improved citizenry is to track certain subjects of the compulsory curriculum. In this case, health is investigated, and especially its messages on smoking and drinking. First introduced as scientific temperance instruction (in the 1880s), renamed hygiene (from about 1910), then as health (from the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comprehensive School Health Education, Smoking, Drinking
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Lewis, Melissa A.; Neighbors, Clayton – Journal of American College Health, 2006
College students have been shown to consistently overestimate the drinking of their peers. As a result, social norms approaches are effective in correcting these misperceived norms to reduce alcohol consumption and alcohol-related problems. In this review of literature, the authors critically evaluated the effectiveness of personalized normative…
Descriptors: Feedback, Drinking, Behavior Standards, Social Behavior
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Quiles, Zandra N.; Kinnunen, Taru; Bybee, Jane – Journal of Drug Education, 2002
Explores the relationship between college students' self-reports of adolescent substance use and scores on indices tapping different aspects of guilt. Results suggest that a stronger internalization of societal standards, as reflected by higher scores on Standards and Situational Guilt, may prove a useful tool in the prevention of substance use.…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior Standards, College Students, Drinking