Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2011
Abstract
This study seeks to identify how rural adolescents make health decisions and utilize communication strategies to resist influence attempts in offers of alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs (ATOD). Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 113 adolescents from rural school districts to solicit information on ATOD norms, past ATOD experiences, and substance offer response episodes. Rural youths’ resistance strategies were similar to previous findings with urban adolescents – refuse, explain, avoid, and leave (the REAL typology) – while unique features of these strategies were identified including the importance of personal narratives, the articulation of a non-user identity, and being “accountable” to self and others.
Recommended Citation
Pettigrew, J., Miller-Day, M., Hecht, M.L., & Krieger, J. (2011). Alcohol and other drug resistance strategies employed by rural adolescents. Journal of Applied Communication Research, 39(2), 103-122. DOI:10.1080/00909882.2011.556139
Copyright
Taylor & Francis
Included in
Medicine and Health Commons, Place and Environment Commons, Rural Sociology Commons, Substance Abuse and Addiction Commons
Comments
This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published in Journal of Applied Communication Research, volume 39, issue 2, in 2011, available online at DOI: 10.1080/00909882.2011.556139.