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Preventing binge drinking during early adolescence: one- and two-year follow-up of a school-based preventive interventionG J Botvin
Institute for Prevention Research, Weill Medical College of Cornell University New York, New York 10021, USA
Psychol Addict Behav 15:360-5. 2001..These findings indicate that a school-based drug abuse prevention approach previously found to be effective among White youth significantly reduced binge drinking among urban minority youth...- Drug abuse prevention among minority adolescents: posttest and one-year follow-up of a school-based preventive interventionG J Botvin
Institute for Prevention Research, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, 411 East 69th Street, New York, New York 10021, USA
Prev Sci 2:1-13. 2001..The findings from this study show that a drug abuse prevention program originally designed for White middle-class adolescent populations is effective in a sample of minority, economically disadvantaged, inner-city adolescents... - School-based programmes to prevent alcohol, tobacco and other drug useGilbert J Botvin
Institute for Prevention Research, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY 10021 USA
Int Rev Psychiatry 19:607-15. 2007..A key challenge is to identify mechanisms for the wide dissemination of evidence-based drug preventive interventions and ways to train providers to implement programmes effectively and thoroughly... - Life skills training as a primary prevention approach for adolescent drug abuse and other problem behaviorsGilbert J Botvin
Institute for Prevention Research, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, 411 East 69th Street, New York 10021, USA
Int J Emerg Ment Health 4:41-7. 2002..The role of competence enhancement-based primary prevention programs in preventing other negative behaviors during adolescence is discussed... - Advancing prevention science and practice: challenges, critical issues, and future directionsGilbert J Botvin
Institute for Prevention Research, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, New York 10021, USA
Prev Sci 5:69-72. 2004..Further advances in prevention science and practice will require a new emphasis on blended research models that involve conducting prevention research in practice settings with the active collaboration of researchers and practitioners... - Ethnic and gender differences in psychosocial risk, protection, and adolescent alcohol useK W Griffin
Institute for Prevention Research, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, New York 10021, USA
Prev Sci 1:199-212. 2000..Findings suggest that prevention approaches should focus on enhancing protection in addition to reducing risk, particularly among youth with lower levels of psychosocial protection... - Preventive intervention effects on developmental progression in drug use: structural equation modeling analyses using longitudinal dataL M Scheier
Department of Public Health, Institute for Prevention Research, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, New York 10021, USA
Prev Sci 2:91-112. 2001..Findings underscore the utility of targeting more than one gateway substance to prevent escalation of drug involvement and reinforce the importance of social competence enhancement as an effective deterrent to early-stage drug use... - Protective role of personal competence skills in adolescent substance use: psychological well-being as a mediating factorK W Griffin
Institute for Prevention Research, Weill Medical College, Cornell University, New York, New York 10021, USA
Psychol Addict Behav 15:194-203. 2001..Findings suggest that competence skills protect youth by enhancing well-being and that prevention programs should aim to enhance competence in order to promote resilience... - Risk taking and refusal assertiveness in a longitudinal model of alcohol use among inner-city adolescentsJ A Epstein
Institute for Prevention Research, Cornell University Medical College, New York, New York 10021, USA
Prev Sci 2:193-200. 2001..But programs that focus on enhancing competence or reducing normative expectations for peer alcohol use might be more effective for high risk-taking youth... - Linguistic acculturation and gender effects on smoking among Hispanic youthJ A Epstein
Institute for Prevention Research, Cornell University Medical College, New York, New York 10021, USA
Prev Med 27:583-9. 1998..Although a positive association between acculturation and smoking appears to depend on gender among adults, research with Hispanic adolescents has ignored the moderating effect of gender... - Linguistic acculturation associated with higher marijuana and polydrug use among Hispanic adolescentsJ A Epstein
Institute for Prevention Research, Cornell University, Weill Medical College, New York, New York 10021, USA
Subst Use Misuse 36:477-99. 2001..By the 1-year follow-up, students who spoke English with their parents and bilingual students who spoke English and Spanish with their parents engaged in greater polydrug use than those who spoke Spanish with their parents... - Alcohol use among Dominican and Puerto Rican adolescents residing in New York City: role of Hispanic group and genderJ A Epstein
Department of Public Health, Cornell University, Weill Medical College, New York, New York 10021, USA
J Dev Behav Pediatr 22:113-8. 2001..These findings highlight the importance of considering Hispanic group and gender when examining adolescent drinking... - A model of smoking among inner-city adolescents: the role of personal competence and perceived social benefits of smokingJ A Epstein
Institute for Prevention Research, Cornell University, Weill Medical College, New York, New York 10021, USA
Prev Med 31:107-14. 2000.... - Parenting practices as predictors of substance use, delinquency, and aggression among urban minority youth: moderating effects of family structure and genderK W Griffin
Institute for Prevention Research, Cornell University Medical College, New York, New York 10021, USA
Psychol Addict Behav 14:174-84. 2000..Unsupervised time at home alone was associated with more smoking for girls only. Implications for prevention interventions are discussed... - A six-year follow-up study of determinants of heavy cigarette smoking among high-school seniorsK W Griffin
Institute for Prevention Research, Cornell University Medical College, New York, New York 10021, USA
J Behav Med 22:271-84. 1999..Antismoking attitudes and those of one's parents and friends predicted less later heavy smoking in girls only. Implications for smoking prevention are discussed... 
Competence skills help deter smoking among inner city adolescentsJ A Epstein
Institute for Prevention Research, Cornell University Medical College, New York, NY 10021, USA
Tob Control 9:33-9. 2000..To test whether higher levels of general competence are linked to more frequent use of refusal assertiveness that is in turn related to less subsequent smoking among inner city adolescents...- Psychosocial predictors of cigarette smoking among adolescents living in public housing developmentsJ A Epstein
Department of Public Health, Cornell University Medical College, New York, NY 10021, USA
Tob Control 8:45-52. 1999..Adolescents residing in low-income public housing developments in inner-city regions may be particularly vulnerable to a variety of risk factors associated with cigarette smoking... - Preventing drug abuse in schools: social and competence enhancement approaches targeting individual-level etiologic factorsG J Botvin
Institute for Prevention Research, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY 10023, USA
Addict Behav 25:887-97. 2000..The current paper provides a brief review of school-based prevention approaches targeting individual-level etiologic factors, evidence supporting their effectiveness, and a discussion of potential mediating mechanisms... - Which psychosocial factors moderate or directly affect substance use among inner-city adolescents?Jennifer A Epstein
Institute for Prevention Research, Department of Public Health, Cornell University, Weill Medical College, 411 East 69th Street, New York, NY 10021, USA
Addict Behav 32:700-13. 2007..Moreover, perceived peer smoking norms, siblings' smoking, and high risk-taking also showed significant main effects for increasing future smoking... - Ways to say no: refusal skill strategies among urban adolescentsTracy R Nichols
Weill Medical College of Cornell University, 411 East 69th Street, New York, NY 10021, USA
Am J Health Behav 30:227-36. 2006..To examine associations among adolescents' generated verbal strategies (ie, Simple No, Declarative Statements, Excuse, Alternatives) and underlying nonverbal assertiveness in 2 refusal situations: smoking and shoplifting... - Social competence among urban minority youth entering middle school: relationships with alcohol use and antisocial behaviorsKenneth W Griffin
Division of Prevention and Health Behavior, Department of Public Health, Weill Medical College of Comell University, New York, NY 10014, USA
Int J Adolesc Med Health 18:97-106. 2006..These findings suggest that social confidence, particularly as it relates to precocious dating behavior during early adolescence, is a risk factor for the early initiation of alcohol use and antisocial behavior... - Effects of a school-based drug abuse prevention program for adolescents on HIV risk behavior in young adulthoodKenneth W Griffin
Division of Prevention and Health Behavior, Department of Public Health, Weill Medical College, Cornell University, New York, New York 10021, USA
Prev Sci 7:103-12. 2006..The behavioral effects of competence-enhancement drug prevention programs can extend to risk behaviors including those that put one at risk for HIV infection... - Racial/ethnic differences in the protective effects of self-management skills on adolescent substance useKenneth W Griffin
Division of Prevention and Health Behavior, Department of Public Health, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY 10021, USA
Subst Abus 27:47-52. 2006.... - Do competence skills moderate the impact of social influences to drink and perceived social benefits of drinking on alcohol use among inner-city adolescents?Jennifer A Epstein
Department of Public Health, Institute for Prevention Research, Cornell University, Weill Medical College, New York, NY 10021, USA
Prev Sci 8:65-73. 2007..Competence skills served as protective factors, as well as moderators. One possible reason that competence enhancement approaches to alcohol prevention are effective may be due to the inclusion of the competence skills component... - Preventing youth violence and delinquency through a universal school-based prevention approachGilbert J Botvin
Department of Public Health, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, 411 East 69th Street, New York, NY 10021, USA
Prev Sci 7:403-8. 2006..The results of this study indicate that a school-based prevention approach previously found to prevent tobacco, alcohol, and illicit drug use can also prevent violence and delinquency... - Links between pubertal timing, peer influences, and externalizing behaviors among urban students followed through middle schoolSarah D Lynne
Department of Psychology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611 2250, USA
J Adolesc Health 40:181.e7-13. 2007..To evaluate underlying mechanisms of the association between early pubertal timing and both aggression and delinquency among a sample of minority males and females from an urban community... - Media resistance skills and drug skill refusal techniques: What is their relationship with alcohol use among inner-city adolescents?Jennifer A Epstein
Department of Public Health, Division of Prevention and Health Behavior, Cornell University, Weill Medical College, New York, NY 10021, United States
Addict Behav 33:528-37. 2008..These findings provided empirical support for including media resistance skills and drug skill refusal techniques in alcohol prevention programs... - A social influence model of alcohol use for inner-city adolescents: family drinking, perceived drinking norms, and perceived social benefits of drinkingJennifer A Epstein
Department of Public Health, Division of Prevention and Health Behavior, Weill Cornell Medical College, 1300 York Avenue, New York, New York 10021, USA
J Stud Alcohol Drugs 69:397-405. 2008.... 
Examining anger as a predictor of drug use among multiethnic middle school studentsTracy R Nichols
Center for Women s Health and Wellness, School of Health and Human Performance, University of North Carolina Greensboro, Greensboro, NC 27402, USA
J Sch Health 78:480-6. 2008..Affective factors may play a greater role in drug use for girls relative to boys; yet, little is known regarding differences in associations between affect and drug use by gender...- Perceived smoking environment and smoking initiation among multi-ethnic urban girlsTracy R Nichols
Department of Public Health, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, New York 10021, USA
J Adolesc Health 38:369-75. 2006..To examine associations between the perceived smoking environment and smoking initiation among urban multi-ethnic adolescent girls in New York City... - It's not what you say, it's how many different ways you can say it: links between divergent peer resistance skills and delinquency a year laterA Jordan Wright
National Center for Children and Families, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA
J Adolesc Health 35:380-91. 2004..To examine whether generation of 'socially appropriate' responses or divergent responses to continued peer pressure is a more effective deterrent of actual delinquency... - Long-term follow-up effects of a school-based drug abuse prevention program on adolescent risky drivingKenneth W Griffin
Institute for Prevention Research, Weill Medical College, Cornell University, 411 East 69th Street, New York, New York 10021, USA
Prev Sci 5:207-12. 2004..These results support the hypothesis that the behavioral effects of competence-enhancement prevention programs can extend to risk behaviors beyond the initial focus of intervention, such as risky driving... - Estimates of intragroup dependence for drug use and skill measures in school-based drug abuse prevention trials: an empirical study of three independent samplesLawrence M Scheier
University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Counseling Department, 89154, USA
Health Educ Behav 29:85-103. 2002..Findings are discussed with respect to the influence of social climate factors and group norms in the design and analysis of school-based, drug abuse, prevention programs... - Personal competence skills, distress, and well-being as determinants of substance use in a predominantly minority urban adolescent sampleKenneth W Griffin
Institute for Prevention Research, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, New York 10021, USA
Prev Sci 3:23-33. 2002.... - Positive impact of competence skills and psychological wellness in protecting inner-city adolescents from alcohol useJennifer A Epstein
Institute for Prevention Research, Weill Medical College, Cornell University, New York, New York 10021, USA
Prev Sci 3:95-104. 2002..These findings highlight the potential of alcohol prevention programs designed to enhance competence and psychological wellness... - The moderating role of risk-taking tendency and refusal assertiveness on social influences in alcohol use among inner-city adolescentsJennifer A Epstein
Institute for Prevention Research, Cornell University, Weill Medical College, New York, New York 10021, USA
J Stud Alcohol 63:456-9. 2002..This study examined the moderating influence of risk-taking tendency and refusal assertiveness on perceived friends' drinking as associated with alcohol use among inner-city adolescents... - Initial internal reliability and descriptive statistics for a brief assessment tool for the Life Skills Training drug-abuse prevention programAraxi P Macaulay
Teachers College, Columbia University, USA
Psychol Rep 91:459-62. 2002..The questionnaire showed good internal reliability, detected change from pretest to posttest, and was brief and easy to complete by 45 middle-school students... - Effectiveness of a universal drug abuse prevention approach for youth at high risk for substance use initiationKenneth W Griffin
Institute for Preventive Research, Weill Medical College, Cornell University, New York, New York 10021, USA
Prev Med 36:1-7. 2003..However, it is unclear whether such broad-based programs are effective for youth at high risk for substance use initiation... - Common predictors of cigarette smoking, alcohol use, aggression, and delinquency among inner-city minority youthKenneth W Griffin
Institute for Prevention Research, Department of Public Health, Weill Medical College, Cornell University, 411 East 69th Street, New York, NY 10021, USA
Addict Behav 28:1141-8. 2003..These findings indicate that several factors that correspond to the predominant psychosocial theories of adolescent development explain variation across different problem behavior outcomes among inner-city minority youth... - Predicting smoking among rural adolescents: social and cognitive processesJennifer A Epstein
Cornell University, Weill Medical College, New York, NY 10021, USA
Nicotine Tob Res 5:485-91. 2003.... - A mediational model of the relationship between linguistic acculturation and polydrug use among Hispanic adolescentsJennifer A Epstein
Institute for Prevention Research, Department of Public Health, Cornell University, Weill Medical College, New York, NY 10021, USA
Psychol Rep 93:859-66. 2003.... - Factors associated with regular marijuana use among high school students: a long-term follow-up studyKenneth W Griffin
Institute for Prevention Research, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, USA
Subst Use Misuse 37:225-38. 2002.... - Low perceived chances for success in life and binge drinking among inner-city minority youthKenneth W Griffin
Institute for Prevention Research, Weill Medical College, Cornell University, 411 East 69th Street, New York, NY 10021, USA
J Adolesc Health 34:501-7. 2004..To examine the relationship between low perceived chances for success in life and binge drinking in a sample of economically disadvantaged, predominantly minority, urban adolescents... - How universal are social influences to drink and problem behaviors for alcohol use? A test comparing urban African-American and Caribbean-American adolescentsJennifer A Epstein
Institute for Prevention Research, Cornell University, Weill Medical College, New York, NY 10021, USA
Addict Behav 27:75-86. 2002..These findings highlight the importance of examining the etiology of alcohol use for different black groups...
Research Grants
- MULTI-ETHNIC DRUG ABUSE PREVENTION AMONG NEW YORK YOUTHGILBERT BOTVIN; Fiscal Year: 2006..overall multiethnic drug abuse prevention among new york youth gilbert j. botvin, phd ..
- Enhancing Implementation Fidelity in a Multi-Site TrialGILBERT BOTVIN; Fiscal Year: 2007..The study will be guided by an experienced team of prevention scientists, internationally known consultants, and a community practitioner advisory board that will participate in all phases of the study. ..
- A Collaborative System Approach for the Diffusion of Evidence-Based PreventionGilbert J Botvin; Fiscal Year: 2010....