Anthony Biglan
Biographic Data
| ID | 316167 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anthony Biglan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anthony |
| FAMILY NAME | Biglan |
| SIGNATURE | BIGLAN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Oregon Research Institute |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 136 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1971 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
The Group Nurturance Inventory — initial psychometric evaluation using Rasch and factor analysis
This initial analysis shows promising results, while more data is needed to investigate group-level measurement properties and validation against concrete longitudinal outcomes. We provide recommendations for how to work in practice with a group based on their assessment data, and how to optimize the measurement precision further. By using a two-dimensional assessment with ratings of both frequency and perceived importance of behaviors the instru…
Rebooting Behavioral Science to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions
The promise of prevention science for addressing intergenerational poverty
This paper reviews research suggesting that the prevention of intergenerational poverty will be enhanced if we add evidence-based family and school prevention programs to existing efforts to reduce poverty in order to address the adverse social environments that often accompany poverty. Government policies such as the Earned Income Tax Credit can reduce family poverty, but simply improving the economic stability of the family will not necessarily…
Medical Marijuana Legalization and Marijuana Use Among Youth in Oregon
Acting in light of the future: How do future-oriented cultural practices evolve and how can we accelerate their evolution
Evolving the future: Toward a science of intentional change
Humans possess great capacity for behavioral and cultural change, but our ability to manage change is still limited. This article has two major objectives: first, to sketch a basic science of intentional change centered on evolution; second, to provide examples of intentional behavioral and cultural change from the applied behavioral sciences, which are largely unknown to the basic sciences community. All species have evolved mechanisms of phenot…
The role of experiential avoidance in the relationship between family conflict and depression among early adolescents
Examining psychological inflexibility as a transdiagnostic process across psychological disorders
A framework for intentional cultural change
Reducing Youth Access to Alcohol: Findings from a Community‐Based Randomized Trial
Underage drinking continues to be an important public health problem and a challenge to the substance abuse prevention field. Community‐based interventions designed to more rigorously control underage access to alcohol through retailer education and greater enforcement of underage drinking laws have been advocated as potentially effective strategies to help address this problem, but studies designed to evaluate such interventions are sparse. To a…
The critical role of nurturing environments for promoting human well-being
The recent Institute of Medicine report on prevention (National Research Council & Institute of Medicine, 2009) noted the substantial interrelationship among mental, emotional, and behavioral disorders and pointed out that, to a great extent, these problems stem from a set of common conditions. However, despite the evidence, current research and practice continue to deal with the prevention of mental, emotional, and behavioral disorders as if the…
Increasing Psychological Flexibility to Influence Cultural Evolution
Evidence-based Kernels: Fundamental Units of Behavioral Influence
This paper describes evidence-based kernels, fundamental units of behavioral influence that appear to underlie effective prevention and treatment for children, adults, and families. A kernel is a behavior-influence procedure shown through experimental analysis to affect a specific behavior and that is indivisible in the sense that removing any of its components would render it inert. Existing evidence shows that a variety of kernels can influence…
Standards of Evidence: Criteria for Efficacy, Effectiveness and Dissemination
Relationships Between Peer Harassment and Adolescent Problem Behaviors
Concurrent and predictive relationships between peer harassment and problem behavior were examined for middle and high school students as well as gender differences in these relationships. Students recruited in fifth through seventh grades (n = 223) and their parents provided quarterly questionnaire data and were followed up into high school. As hypothesized, experiencing frequent peer harassment in middle school was associated with greater probl…
Relation between access to tobacco and adolescent smoking
There appears to be a relatively small positive linear relation between the community rate of sales to minors and 11th grade youth smoking prevalence in those communities. Youth adjust their tobacco sources depending on the level of commercial availability
The integration of research and practice in the prevention of youth problem behaviors
The prevention of youth problem behaviors is increasingly guided by science. Sound epidemiological research is coming to guide preventive efforts. Valid methods of monitoring the incidence and prevalence of youth problems increasingly shape preventive practice. The identification of empirically supported prevention interventions is becoming more sophisticated, and numerous scientific organizations have begun to engage in dissemination activities.…
Replication of a Problem Behavior Model with American Indian, Hispanic, and Caucasian Youth
The replicability of a model of family and peer influences on adolescent problem behavior was evaluated with samples of adolescent boys and girls from three ethnic groups: American Indians, Hispanics, and Caucasians. Participants were 1,450 seventh-grade students from 16 communities. The model included links between three aspects of family functioning (family conflict, positive family relations, and inadequate parental monitoring) and adolescents…
The Value of Interrupted Time-Series Experiments for Community Intervention Research
A randomised controlled trial of a community intervention to prevent adolescent tobacco use
The results suggest that comprehensive community wide interventions can improve on the preventive effect of school based tobacco prevention programmes and that effective tobacco prevention may prevent other substance use
Increasing the Use of Science to Improve Child-Rearing
Why Have We Been More Successful in Reducing Tobacco Use Than Violent Crime
Tobacco control efforts have been associated with a significant reduction in the prevalence of tobacco use in the United States. Efforts to reduce the incidence of violent crime have been much less successful. This paper argues that progress on tobacco control stems from the existence of a clear, empirically based, and widely understood analysis of the tobacco problem that articulates (a) the harms associated with its use, (b) the causes of tobac…
Development of Adolescent Problem Behavior
Benefits and barriers for volunteer leaders of a parent training program
Between 1989 and 1992, large numbers of volunteers were trained to lead parenting skills workshops tor parents of elementary and middle school children in communities in Oregon. The authors surveyed the volunteer-leaders to examine the latter's perceptions of the benefits of and barriers to leading the workshops and how those factors related to their intentions to lead future groups. Surveys were mailed to 718 trained group leaders, and 380 instr…
Experimental evaluation of a modular approach to mobilizing antitobacco influences of peers and parents
The experimental evaluation of two components of a community intervention to prevent adolescent tobacco use are described. Youth antitobacco activities (e.g., peer quizzes, sidewalk art, poster and T‐shirt giveaways, etc.) and family communications activities (pamphlets to parents and student quizzes of parents) were evaluated in two time‐series experiments, each of which was conducted in two experimental and one control community. Students in Gr…
The critical role of nurturing environments for promoting human well-being
The recent Institute of Medicine report on prevention (National Research Council & Institute of Medicine, 2009) noted the substantial interrelationship among mental, emotional, and behavioral disorders and pointed out that, to a great extent, these problems stem from a set of common conditions. However, despite the evidence, current research and practice continue to deal with the prevention of mental, emotional, and behavioral disorders as if the…
Replication of a Problem Behavior Model with American Indian, Hispanic, and Caucasian Youth
The replicability of a model of family and peer influences on adolescent problem behavior was evaluated with samples of adolescent boys and girls from three ethnic groups: American Indians, Hispanics, and Caucasians. Participants were 1,450 seventh-grade students from 16 communities. The model included links between three aspects of family functioning (family conflict, positive family relations, and inadequate parental monitoring) and adolescents…
The Validation of a Construct of High-Risk Sexual Behavior in Heterosexual Adolescents
The potential spread of HIV infection into the adolescent population underscores the need for valid measures of high-risk sexual behavior in adolescents. This article reports on the development and construct validation of two measures of high-risk sexual behavior for heterosexual adolescents. Based on evidence that diverse problem behaviors are interrelated in adolescents, it was hypothesized that specific risky sexual behaviors, such as nonuse o…
The integration of research and practice in the prevention of youth problem behaviors
The prevention of youth problem behaviors is increasingly guided by science. Sound epidemiological research is coming to guide preventive efforts. Valid methods of monitoring the incidence and prevalence of youth problems increasingly shape preventive practice. The identification of empirically supported prevention interventions is becoming more sophisticated, and numerous scientific organizations have begun to engage in dissemination activities.…
Relationships Between Peer Harassment and Adolescent Problem Behaviors
Concurrent and predictive relationships between peer harassment and problem behavior were examined for middle and high school students as well as gender differences in these relationships. Students recruited in fifth through seventh grades (n = 223) and their parents provided quarterly questionnaire data and were followed up into high school. As hypothesized, experiencing frequent peer harassment in middle school was associated with greater probl…
Increasing Psychological Flexibility to Influence Cultural Evolution
Instrumentality theories: Current uses in psychology
A number of psychologists in a variety of areas have proposed that behavior can be predicted from knowledge of the probability of the behavior leading to various outcomes and the evaluation of these outcomes. Theories based on this idea are reviewed in the areas of verbal conditioning, attitudes, and industrial psychology. Criticisms and improvements of the theories are discussed. (Author)
The promise of prevention science for addressing intergenerational poverty
This paper reviews research suggesting that the prevention of intergenerational poverty will be enhanced if we add evidence-based family and school prevention programs to existing efforts to reduce poverty in order to address the adverse social environments that often accompany poverty. Government policies such as the Earned Income Tax Credit can reduce family poverty, but simply improving the economic stability of the family will not necessarily…
Why Have We Been More Successful in Reducing Tobacco Use Than Violent Crime
Tobacco control efforts have been associated with a significant reduction in the prevalence of tobacco use in the United States. Efforts to reduce the incidence of violent crime have been much less successful. This paper argues that progress on tobacco control stems from the existence of a clear, empirically based, and widely understood analysis of the tobacco problem that articulates (a) the harms associated with its use, (b) the causes of tobac…
Mobilizing positive reinforcement in communities to reduce youth access to tobacco
A community intervention to mobilize positive reinforcement for not selling tobacco to young people was evaluated. The intervention had five components: (a) mobilization of community support, (b) merchant education, (c) changing consequences to clerks for selling or not selling to those under 18, (d) publicity about clerks’ refusals to sell, and (e) feedback to store owners or managers about the extent of their sales to adolescents. A multiple ba…
Rebooting Behavioral Science to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Reducing Youth Access to Alcohol: Findings from a Community‐Based Randomized Trial
Underage drinking continues to be an important public health problem and a challenge to the substance abuse prevention field. Community‐based interventions designed to more rigorously control underage access to alcohol through retailer education and greater enforcement of underage drinking laws have been advocated as potentially effective strategies to help address this problem, but studies designed to evaluate such interventions are sparse. To a…
Experimental evaluation of a modular approach to mobilizing antitobacco influences of peers and parents
The experimental evaluation of two components of a community intervention to prevent adolescent tobacco use are described. Youth antitobacco activities (e.g., peer quizzes, sidewalk art, poster and T‐shirt giveaways, etc.) and family communications activities (pamphlets to parents and student quizzes of parents) were evaluated in two time‐series experiments, each of which was conducted in two experimental and one control community. Students in Gr…
Instrumentality theories: Current uses in psychology
A number of psychologists in a variety of areas have proposed that behavior can be predicted from knowledge of the probability of the behavior leading to various outcomes and the evaluation of these outcomes. Theories based on this idea are reviewed in the areas of verbal conditioning, attitudes, and industrial psychology. Criticisms and improvements of the theories are discussed. (Author)
Relationships between subject matter characteristics and the structure and output of university departments.
The characteristics of subject matter in different academic areas.
Social and behavioral factors associated with high-risk sexual behavior among adolescents
The Validation of a Construct of High-Risk Sexual Behavior in Heterosexual Adolescents
The potential spread of HIV infection into the adolescent population underscores the need for valid measures of high-risk sexual behavior in adolescents. This article reports on the development and construct validation of two measures of high-risk sexual behavior for heterosexual adolescents. Based on evidence that diverse problem behaviors are interrelated in adolescents, it was hypothesized that specific risky sexual behaviors, such as nonuse o…
The social context for risky sexual behavior among adolescents
Mobilising positive reinforcement to reduce youth access to tobacco
Correspondence to : Anthony Biglan, Oregon Research Institute 1715 Franklin Blvd, Eugene, OR 97403-1983, USA Abstract Objective To evaluate a community in tervention to mobilise positive reinforce ment for not selling tobacco to young people. Intervention -The intervention had five components: (a) mobilisation of com munity support; (b) education of mer chants; (c) changing consequences to clerks for selling or not selling to those under 18 years…
Benefits and barriers for volunteer leaders of a parent training program
Between 1989 and 1992, large numbers of volunteers were trained to lead parenting skills workshops tor parents of elementary and middle school children in communities in Oregon. The authors surveyed the volunteer-leaders to examine the latter's perceptions of the benefits of and barriers to leading the workshops and how those factors related to their intentions to lead future groups. Surveys were mailed to 718 trained group leaders, and 380 instr…
Experimental evaluation of a modular approach to mobilizing antitobacco influences of peers and parents
The experimental evaluation of two components of a community intervention to prevent adolescent tobacco use are described. Youth antitobacco activities (e.g., peer quizzes, sidewalk art, poster and T‐shirt giveaways, etc.) and family communications activities (pamphlets to parents and student quizzes of parents) were evaluated in two time‐series experiments, each of which was conducted in two experimental and one control community. Students in Gr…
Mobilizing positive reinforcement in communities to reduce youth access to tobacco
A community intervention to mobilize positive reinforcement for not selling tobacco to young people was evaluated. The intervention had five components: (a) mobilization of community support, (b) merchant education, (c) changing consequences to clerks for selling or not selling to those under 18, (d) publicity about clerks’ refusals to sell, and (e) feedback to store owners or managers about the extent of their sales to adolescents. A multiple ba…
Development of Adolescent Problem Behavior
The Value of Interrupted Time-Series Experiments for Community Intervention Research
A randomised controlled trial of a community intervention to prevent adolescent tobacco use
The results suggest that comprehensive community wide interventions can improve on the preventive effect of school based tobacco prevention programmes and that effective tobacco prevention may prevent other substance use
Increasing the Use of Science to Improve Child-Rearing
Why Have We Been More Successful in Reducing Tobacco Use Than Violent Crime
Tobacco control efforts have been associated with a significant reduction in the prevalence of tobacco use in the United States. Efforts to reduce the incidence of violent crime have been much less successful. This paper argues that progress on tobacco control stems from the existence of a clear, empirically based, and widely understood analysis of the tobacco problem that articulates (a) the harms associated with its use, (b) the causes of tobac…
Replication of a Problem Behavior Model with American Indian, Hispanic, and Caucasian Youth
The replicability of a model of family and peer influences on adolescent problem behavior was evaluated with samples of adolescent boys and girls from three ethnic groups: American Indians, Hispanics, and Caucasians. Participants were 1,450 seventh-grade students from 16 communities. The model included links between three aspects of family functioning (family conflict, positive family relations, and inadequate parental monitoring) and adolescents…
The integration of research and practice in the prevention of youth problem behaviors
The prevention of youth problem behaviors is increasingly guided by science. Sound epidemiological research is coming to guide preventive efforts. Valid methods of monitoring the incidence and prevalence of youth problems increasingly shape preventive practice. The identification of empirically supported prevention interventions is becoming more sophisticated, and numerous scientific organizations have begun to engage in dissemination activities.…
Relation between access to tobacco and adolescent smoking
There appears to be a relatively small positive linear relation between the community rate of sales to minors and 11th grade youth smoking prevalence in those communities. Youth adjust their tobacco sources depending on the level of commercial availability
Standards of Evidence: Criteria for Efficacy, Effectiveness and Dissemination
Relationships Between Peer Harassment and Adolescent Problem Behaviors
Concurrent and predictive relationships between peer harassment and problem behavior were examined for middle and high school students as well as gender differences in these relationships. Students recruited in fifth through seventh grades (n = 223) and their parents provided quarterly questionnaire data and were followed up into high school. As hypothesized, experiencing frequent peer harassment in middle school was associated with greater probl…
Evidence-based Kernels: Fundamental Units of Behavioral Influence
This paper describes evidence-based kernels, fundamental units of behavioral influence that appear to underlie effective prevention and treatment for children, adults, and families. A kernel is a behavior-influence procedure shown through experimental analysis to affect a specific behavior and that is indivisible in the sense that removing any of its components would render it inert. Existing evidence shows that a variety of kernels can influence…
Increasing Psychological Flexibility to Influence Cultural Evolution
The critical role of nurturing environments for promoting human well-being
The recent Institute of Medicine report on prevention (National Research Council & Institute of Medicine, 2009) noted the substantial interrelationship among mental, emotional, and behavioral disorders and pointed out that, to a great extent, these problems stem from a set of common conditions. However, despite the evidence, current research and practice continue to deal with the prevention of mental, emotional, and behavioral disorders as if the…
A framework for intentional cultural change
Reducing Youth Access to Alcohol: Findings from a Community‐Based Randomized Trial
Underage drinking continues to be an important public health problem and a challenge to the substance abuse prevention field. Community‐based interventions designed to more rigorously control underage access to alcohol through retailer education and greater enforcement of underage drinking laws have been advocated as potentially effective strategies to help address this problem, but studies designed to evaluate such interventions are sparse. To a…
Psychology (29 works) · Medicine (17 works) · Social Psychology (13 works) · Public health (12 works) · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (11 works) · Health psychology (10 works) · Behavioral and Psychological Studies (9 works) · Clinical Psychology (9 works) · Computer Science (9 works) · Environmental health (9 works)