2009 Volume 32 Issue 3 Pages 61-70
Recently, a school-based program was developed to prevent alcohol, tobacco and other drug use, which focused on teaching refusal skills. The purposes of this study were to examine the relationships among self-reported assertion, refusal efficacy, and role-playing tests on high school students' skill at refusing offers of tobacco and alcohol. In total 151 eighth-grade students (78 males and 73 females) took part in this study by completing the self-assessment questionnaires. From among them, 40 students were selected for role-playing assessments of refusal skills. The main correlation coefficients for the relationship between the self-assessment and role-playing tests were not significant. It was also found that the reliability of verbal measures of role-playing assessments of refusal skills was very high (intraclass correlation coefficients (ICC) = 0.82-0.94).
