[Preadolescents' refusal skills and responses emotional reactions to the offer of tobacco and ecstasy in Youjiang District in Baise City in 2014].

OBJECTIVE

To assess preadolescents' emotional reactions and intended use of refusal responses to tobacco and ecstasy.

METHODS

A total of 333 students from two junior schools in Baise City were recruited with cluster-sampling method, filled the questionnaire to assess a respondent's emotional reactions and refusal skills in response to an offer of tobacco and MDMA from Feb to Jul 2014.

RESULTS

88. 89%-93. 39% of preadolescents would more likely to use "say no"and "tell them you don't want it". A series of 2( type of drug) × 2( offerer) × 2( sex) ANOVAs showed there were main effects for sex in "explicit refusal scale "( F = 8. 391, P = 0. 004), "excuse scale "( F =156. 560, P < 0. 001), "implicit refusal scale "( F = 84. 498, P < 0. 001), "aggression scale"( F = 31. 911, P < 0. 001). For the excuse scale, there were main effects for drug( F = 12. 009, P = 0. 001). A series of χ2-tests showed that participants were more"curious"to MDMA offers than tobacco offers from close friends and acquaintances( χ2=13. 76, P = 0. 0003; χ2= 10. 24, P = 0. 002). For the close friends offers, participants were more "pleasure " to tobacco offers than MDMA offers( χ2= 8. 33, P = 0. 006).

CONCLUSION

There were significant effects of sex and offers in refusal style for drug offers. Preadolescents would show different emotional reaction to type of drug supplier or provider.