title: Gender Differences in Preferred Drug Resistance Strategies of Rural Native Hawaiian Youth.
abstract: This study examined the gender differences in preferred strategies used to resist drugs and alcohol for rural Native Hawaiian youth. Seventy-four youth (60% female) within eight different middle/intermediate or high schools participated in 15 different focus groups as part of a pilot/feasibility drug prevention study funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse. Consistent with relational-cultural theory, qualitative findings indicated how female youth participants favored drug resistance strategies that maintained relational connectedness with the drug offerer, and how they considered the long-term relational consequences of different drug resistance strategies. Implications of these findings for indigenous- and gender-specific prevention are discussed.
authors: Associate Professor, School of Social Work, Hawai'i Pacific University.
authors: Scott K
authors: SK
authors: Okamoto
authors: Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa.
authors: Susana
authors: S
authors: Helm
authors: Graduate Students, School of Social Work, Hawai'i Pacific University.
authors: Latoya L
authors: LL
authors: McClain
authors: Graduate Students, School of Social Work, Hawai'i Pacific University.
authors: Suzanne
authors: S
authors: Pel
authors: Undergraduate Students, Hawai'i Pacific University.
authors: Janai K P
authors: JK
authors: Hayashida
authors: Undergraduate Students, Hawai'i Pacific University.
authors: Amber P
authors: AP
authors: Hill
keywords: Gender; Hawaiian; drugs; prevention; relational-cultural theory