In this study, the effectiveness of a life skills program to impede tobacco use in early adolescence was scrutinized. The focus was on the mediating role of yielding to peer pressure. The universal schoolbased life skills program IPSY (Information + Psychosocial Competence = Protection) against adolescent substance use was implemented over 3 years. Over the same time period, it was evaluated ba...

SPM (Spoofing Prevention Method) proposed a peer-to-peer anti-spoofing method which could effectively filter spoofed packets and support incremental deployment. However, mechanism of SPM key updating has some serious problems: (1) heavy management cost; (2) risk of becoming the target of DOS/DDOS attacks during the key updating; (3) limitation of the scale of the SPM union; (4) impossibility of...

Voluntary adoption of pollution prevention (P2) practices has been used to reduce toxic emissions in the US. Spillovers among facilities owned by same firm likely play an important role diffusion P2 practices. This article estimates intrafirm spillover effects adoption. Using instrumental variables methods applied facility panel data from Toxics Release Inventory, we find that a facility’s own ...

The purpose of this study was to examine longitudinal connections among young adolescent heterosocial involvement (i.e., mixed-sex interactions), peer pressure for thinness, and body dissatisfaction. Three years of self-report questionnaire data were collected from 88 adolescent girls as they completed 6th through 8th grades. Results indicated that the relation between heterosocial involvement ...

BACKGROUND A randomized controlled trial evaluated the effect of telephone-based peer support on preventing postpartum depression (PPD) among high-risk mothers. The results indicated that support provided by peer volunteers may be an effective preventative strategy. The purpose of this paper is to outline the process of developing, implementing, maintaining, and evaluating the peer support prog...

OBJECTIVES We examined the effectiveness of the Sources of Strength suicide prevention program in enhancing protective factors among peer leaders trained to conduct schoolwide messaging and among the full population of high school students. METHODS Eighteen high schools--6 metropolitan and 12 rural--were randomly assigned to immediate intervention or the wait-list control. Surveys were admini...