Mileviciute Inga, Scott Walter D, Mousseau Alicia C
Department of Psychology, University of Wyoming and.
Am J Drug Alcohol Abuse. 2014 Jul;40(4):342-8. doi: 10.3109/00952990.2014.910518. Epub 2014 Jun 20.
There is a need to understand resiliency factors which can be used to inform and design interventions to prevent externalizing problems, substance use, and depressive symptoms among American Indian (AI) youth.
The present study examined the role of self-efficacy in externalizing problems, alcohol use, and depressive symptoms among AI youth from the North American plains.
Participants for this study included 146 (53 boys and 93 girls) adolescents, with an age range of 13-18 (M = 14.5) years of age.
High self-efficacy for resisting negative peer influences predicted both lower rates of alcohol use and fewer externalizing behaviors. Furthermore, higher levels of both academic and social self-efficacy predicted fewer depressive symptoms. The hypothesis that academic self-efficacy would predict depressive symptoms was not supported.
As expected, the best-fitting path model showed self-efficacy for resisting negative peer influences predicting both alcohol use and externalizing problems, and social self-efficacy (as well as being female) predicting depressive symptoms among AI youth. Therefore, this study supports the importance of self-efficacy beliefs for alcohol use and externalizing problems, as well as depressive symptoms, among AI youth.
有必要了解弹性因素，这些因素可用于为预防美国印第安（AI）青少年的外化问题、物质使用和抑郁症状的干预措施提供信息并进行设计。
本研究考察了自我效能感在北美平原AI青少年的外化问题、酒精使用和抑郁症状中的作用。
本研究的参与者包括146名青少年（53名男孩和93名女孩），年龄在13至18岁之间（平均年龄M = 14.5岁）。
抵制负面同伴影响的高自我效能感预示着较低的酒精使用率和较少的外化行为。此外，较高水平的学业和社交自我效能感预示着较少的抑郁症状。学业自我效能感能预测抑郁症状这一假设未得到支持。
正如预期的那样，拟合度最佳的路径模型显示，抵制负面同伴影响的自我效能感能预测酒精使用和外化问题，社交自我效能感（以及女性身份）能预测AI青少年的抑郁症状。因此，本研究支持了自我效能感信念对AI青少年的酒精使用、外化问题以及抑郁症状的重要性。
