title: The role of teacher communicator style in the delivery of a middle school substance use prevention program.
abstract: We examine whether teachers' communicator style relates to student engagement, teacher-student relationships, student perceptions of teacher immediacy, as well as observer ratings of delivery skills during the implementation of All Stars, a middle school-based substance use prevention program. Data from 48 teachers who taught All Stars up to 3 consecutive years and their respective seventh-grade students (n = 2,240) indicate that having an authoritative communication style is negatively related to student engagement with the curriculum and the quality of the student-teacher relationship, while having an expressive communicator style improves teachers' immediacy to student needs. Adaptations made by a subsample of teachers (n = 27) reveal that those who were more expressive asked students more questions, used more motivational techniques, and introduced more new concepts than authoritarian teachers.
authors.forename: Steven M
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Giles
authors.forename: Melinda M
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Pankratz
authors.forename: Chris
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Ringwalt
authors.forename: Julia
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Jackson-Newsom
authors.forename: William B
authors.initials: WB
authors.lastname: Hansen
authors.forename: Dana
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Bishop
authors.forename: Linda
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Dusenbury
authors.forename: Nisha
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Gottfredson
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002641:Chicago; D002648:Child; D003142:Communication; D005178:Faculty; D005260:Female; D006293:Health Promotion; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000517:prevention & control*; D013663:Teaching / Q000379:methods*; D014743:Videotape Recording