Effects of PROSPER on the influence potential of prosocial versus antisocial youth in adolescent friendship networks.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

We test the hypothesis that an evidence-based preventive intervention will change adolescent friendship networks to reduce the potential for peer influence toward antisocial behavior. Altering adolescents' friendship networks in this way is a promising avenue for achieving setting-level prevention benefits such as expanding the reach and durability of program effects.

Methods

Beginning in 2002, the Promoting School-University Partnerships to Enhance Resilience (PROSPER) randomized control trial assigned two entire sixth-grade cohorts of 14 rural and small town school districts in Iowa and Pennsylvania to receive the intervention and of 14 to control. A family-based intervention was offered in sixth grade and a school-based intervention was provided in seventh grad

SUBMITTER: Osgood DW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3725467 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature