Child and Adolescent Drug Use: A Judgment and Information Processing Perspective to Health-Behavior Interventions

Information-based interventions to health behavior enjoy considerable popularity and are frequently used. This is so despite the fact that they often fail to successfully change health behavior. This article develops a transactional process model of human judgment and information processing that dir...

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Published in:Journal of drug education 1987-01, Vol.17 (4), p.295-313
Main Authors: Cvetkovich, George, Earle, Timothy C., Schinke, Steven P., Gilchrist, Lewayne D., Trimble, Joseph E.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Accumulation
Adolescent
Adolescent Behavior
Adolescents
Alternative Approaches
Behavior change
Biological and medical sciences
Child
Child Behavior
Children
Court decisions
Drug Abuse
Drug prevention
Drug use
Health behavior
Helping Behavior
Humans
Information Processing
Intervention
Medical sciences
Mental health
Mental imagery
Models, Psychological
Popularity
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychopathology. Psychiatry
Social Behavior
Social psychiatry. Ethnopsychiatry
Structural aspects
Substance-Related Disorders - prevention & control
Substance-Related Disorders - psychology
Teenagers
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Summary:Information-based interventions to health behavior enjoy considerable popularity and are frequently used. This is so despite the fact that they often fail to successfully change health behavior. This article develops a transactional process model of human judgment and information processing that directs attention away from the mere accumulation of information to the needs, motives, and abilities of the information user. It is argued that the model can be used to improve the effectiveness of information-based interventions. Two structural aspects of drug use images are discussed in detail: personal mental images related to drug use/abstinence and the selection of images pertinent to drug use. The developed model suggests what specific judgment and information-processing changes should occur as the result of successful information-based intervention.
ISSN:0047-2379
1541-4159
DOI:10.2190/5197-EKAE-262J-U3FN