Adolescents' Attitudes Toward Antimarijuana Ads, Usage Intentions, and Actual Marijuana Usage
Adolescents' Attitudes Toward Antimarijuana Ads, Usage Intentions, and Actual Marijuana Usage
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DOI:
10.1037/a0031960
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发表时间:
2013-12-01
影响因子:
3.4
通讯作者:
Nakawaki, Brandon
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作者:
Alvaro, Eusebio M.;Crano, William D.;Nakawaki, Brandon
The association of adolescents' appraisals of the antimarijuana TV ads used in the National Youth Antidrug Media Campaign with future marijuana use was investigated. The 12- to 18-year-old respondents (N = 2,993) were first classified as users, resolute nonusers, or vulnerable nonusers (Crano, Siegel, Alvaro, Lac, & Hemovich, 2008). Usage status and the covariates of gender, age, and attitudes toward marijuana were used to predict attitudes toward the ads (Aad) in the first phase of a multilevel linear analysis. All covariates were significantly associated with Aad, as was usage status: Resolute nonusers evaluated the ads significantly more positively than vulnerable nonusers and users (all ps