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Area of Science:

Public Health
Psychology
Sociology

Background:

School-based smoking prevention programs can have unpredictable outcomes.
Program effectiveness may be influenced by social/cultural contexts and individual traits.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate how social/cultural contexts and individual dispositional characteristics interact with smoking prevention program content.
To test hypotheses regarding variable program effects based on these interactions.

Main Methods:

3,157 6th graders in 24 culturally diverse or Hispanic/Latino middle schools participated.
Students received a collectivist-framed social influences (SI) program, an individualist-framed SI program, or a control.
Three-way interactions (program frame x social context x dispositional phenotype) were analyzed.

Main Results:

Significant three-way interactions were found for depression and hostility phenotypes.
In Hispanic/Latino schools, high depressed/hostile youth showed larger effects with both program frames.
In mixed schools, low depressed/hostile youth benefited most, especially from the individualist frame; high depressed/hostile youth may have experienced negative effects.

Conclusions:

Prevention program efficacy is contingent on the interplay of program content, social setting, and individual characteristics.
Effective prevention program design and implementation require sensitivity to both individual and sociocultural factors.