A Protective Factors Model for Alcohol Abuse and Suicide Prevention Among Alaska Native Youth
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This study provides an empirical test of a culturally grounded theoretical model for prevention of alcohol abuse and suicide risk with Alaska Native youth, using a promising set of culturally appropriate measures for the study of the process of change and outcome. This model is derived from qualitative work that generated an heuristic model of protective factors from alcohol (Allen et al. in J Prev Interv Commun 32:41–59, 2006 ; Mohatt et al. in Am J Commun Psychol 33:263–273, 2004a ; Harm Reduct 1, 2004b ). Participants included 413 rural Alaska Native youth ages 12–18 who assisted in testing a predictive model of Reasons for Life and Reflective Processes about alcohol abuse consequences as co‐occurring outcomes. Specific individual, family, peer, and community level protective factor variables predicted these outcomes. Results suggest prominent roles for these predictor variables as intermediate prevention strategy target variables in a theoretical model for a multilevel intervention. The model guides understanding of underlying change processes in an intervention to increase the ultimate outcome variables of Reasons for Life and Reflective Processes regarding the consequences of alcohol abuse.
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Family cohesion, parental attachment, and low family conflict are protective.
“Family cohesion, parental attachment, and low family conflict are also protective [44,77]”
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- Authors
- Allen, J., Mohatt, G. V., Fok, C. C. T., Henry, D., & Burkett, R.
- Affiliations
- University of Minnesota (US)
- University of Alaska Fairbanks (US)
- University of Illinois Chicago (US)
- Canter for Alaska Native Health Research University of Alaska Fairbanks Fairbanks AK USA
- Corresponding author
- Allen, James
- Venue
- American Journal of Community Psychology
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2014-06-21
- Volume
- 54
- Issue
- 1-2
- Pages
- 125-139
- ISSN
- 0091-0562 (ISSN-L)
- 1573-2770
- PMC
- PMC4119568
- OpenAlex
- W2001698922
- Cited by
- 76
- References
- 45
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- FWCI
- 7.89
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Licence
- Locations
- American Journal of Community Psychology (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institutes of Health
- National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (R21AA016098, R01AA11446, R01AA011446)
- National Institute on Drug Abuse (T32DA037183)
- National Institute of General Medical Sciences (P30GM103325)
- National Center for Research Resources (P20RR061430)
- National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (R24MD001626)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Epidemiology › Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes
- Social Sciences › Health › Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights
- Keywords
- alcoholism prevention, suicide prevention, Alaska Native youth, protective factors, reflective processes, cultural competence, multilevel interventions, rural youth, family and peer influence, community factors
- MeSH terms
- Suicide Prevention, Adolescent, Alaska, Alcoholism, Child, Inuit, Family Characteristics, Female, Humans, Male, Models, Psychological, Peer Group, Self Concept, Social Support, Suicide, Self Efficacy, Protective Factors
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