Sociology Program, School of Social and Family Dynamics, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 85004-0693, USA.
Subst Use Misuse. 2011;46(11):1395-409. doi: 10.3109/10826084.2011.592433.
This study explores the drug resistance strategies of urban American Indian adolescents when they encounter people offering them alcohol, cigarettes, and marijuana. Data were collected in 2005 from 11 female and 9 male adolescents who self-identified as American Indian and attended two urban middle schools in the southwestern United States. In two focus groups-one at each school site-the youth described their reactions to 25 hypothetical substance offer scenarios drawn from real-life narratives of similar youth. Qualitative analysis of their 552 responses to the scenarios generated 14 categories. Half of the responses were strategies reported most often by nonnative youth (refuse, explain, leave, and avoid). Using ecodevelopmental theory, the responses were analyzed for indications of culturally specific ways of resisting substance offers, such as variation by specific substance and relationship to the person offering. Study limitations are noted along with suggestive implications for future research on culturally appropriate prevention approaches for urban American Indian youth.
本研究探讨了城市美国印第安青少年在遇到提供酒精、香烟和大麻的人时的抗药性策略。数据于 2005 年采集自 11 名自认为是美国印第安人的女性青少年和 9 名男性青少年，他们就读于美国西南部的两所城市中学。在两个焦点小组中——每个学校各一个小组——这些年轻人描述了他们对 25 种假设的物质提供情景的反应，这些情景取自类似的年轻人的真实生活叙述。对他们对情景的 552 个回应进行的定性分析产生了 14 个类别。一半的回应是由非本土青少年报告的最常见的策略（拒绝、解释、离开和避免）。利用生态发展理论，对这些回应进行了分析，以寻找抵抗物质提供的文化特异性方式的迹象，例如根据特定物质和与提供者的关系而有所不同。研究局限性和对未来关于城市美国印第安青年文化适宜预防方法的研究的启示也被注意到。
