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Original Article

The Effects of Skills and Intentions to Use Drugs on Posttreatment Drug Use of Adolescents

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Pages 1-18 | Published online: 07 Jul 2009

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  • , Half of the subjects were exposed to an experimental treatment program aimed at increasing skill levels. Results of this program have been described elsewhere ‘4, 10’. The focus of this report is the relationship of skill levels, intentions to use drugs and alcohol, and drug use outcomes. Combining experimental and control groups in this analysis has the advantage of increasing variation in the skill and intentions variables, thereby permitting detection of any relationships that might exist among these variables and drug outcomes. If little or no variation in skill or intentions measures is present naturally in the population chosen for study, the effects of these variables on drug use cannot be detected. However, enhancing the variation in skill and intentions measures artificially through experiments may allow the investigator to detect an effect that was dormant due to the limited variation of naturally occurring skills and intentions in the drug‐abusing population under study. In these analyses we are not concerned with what produced the variation in skills or intentions. We are concerned here with the question of the extent to which skills and intentions are related to outcomes following treatment
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  • , For males, the total effect of self‐control skills on drug use is –.05 +.38 * (–.09) = –.08. The direct effect is –.05, while the indirect effect is –.03. The indirect effect of self‐control skills accounts for 38% of the total effect. The total effect of drug avoidance skills on drug use is –.10 +. 35 * (–.18) = –.16. The direct effect is –.10, while the indirect effect is –.06. The indirect effect of drug avoidance skills accounts for 38% of the total effect
  • , For females, the total effect of self‐control skills on drug use is –.25 +. 58 * (.04) = –.23. The direct effect is –.25, while the indirect effect is –.02. The indirect effect of self‐control skills accounts for 9% of the total effect. The total effect of drug avoidance skills on drug use is –.18 +. 47 * (–.07) =. 21. The direct effect is –.18, while the indirect effect is –.03. The indirect effect of drug avoidance skills accounts for 5% of the total effect
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