Richard L Spoth
Biographic Data
| ID | 4236499 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard L Spoth |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard L |
| FAMILY NAME | Spoth |
| SIGNATURE | SPOTH R L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Prevention Science Institute; Iowa State University; Iowa |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 50 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Predictors of Attendance Patterns in a Universal Family-Based Preventive Intervention Program
Developmental Change in Adolescent Delinquency: Modeling Time-Varying Effects of a Preventative Intervention and Gabra2 Halpotype Linked to Alcohol Use
Gender Moderation of the Intergenerational Transmission and Stability of Depressive Symptoms from Early Adolescence to Early Adulthood
Pathways to Sustainability: 8-Year Follow-Up From the PROSPER Project
Longitudinal Associations of Alcohol Involvement with Subjective Well-Being in Adolescence and Prediction to Alcohol Problems in Early Adulthood
Long-Term Protective Factor Outcomes of Evidence-based Interventions Implemented by Community Teams Through a Community–University Partnership
Community and Team Member Factors that Influence the Early Phase Functioning of Community Prevention Teams: The PROSPER Project
Influence of a Family‐Focused Substance Use Preventive Intervention on Growth in Adolescent Depressive Symptoms
Preparing for the Drug Free Years (PDFY) is a preventive intervention that targets parenting behaviors, family interaction patterns, and adolescent substance use, factors that have been shown to predict depression among teenagers. Effects of PDFY on trajectories of self‐reported adolescent depressive symptoms from 6th through 12th grade were examined. Latent growth curve modeling was used to analyze data from 429 rural adolescents from schools as…
Toward a Comprehensive Strategy for Effective Practitioner-Scientist Partnerships and Larger-Scale Community Health and Well-Being
This article articulates joint priorities for the fields of prevention science and community psychology. These priorities are intended to address issues raised by the frequent observation of natural tensions between community practitioners and scientists. The first priority is to expand the knowledge base on practitioner-scientist partnerships, particularly on factors associated with positive outcomes within communities. To further articulate thi…
The Strong African American Families Program: Translating Research Into Prevention Programming
A randomized prevention trial contrasted families who took part in the Strong African American Families Program (SAAF), a preventive intervention for rural African American mothers and their 11-year-olds, with control families. SAAF is based on a contextual model positing that regulated, communicative parenting causes changes in factors protecting youths from early alcohol use and sexual activity. Parenting variables included involvement-vigilanc…
The self-fulfilling influence of mother expectations on children's underage drinking
This research examined whether mothers' expectations about their children's drinking behavior influenced their children's future alcohol use through self-fulfilling prophecies. It also investigated whether children's self-esteem, family social class, or the valence of mother expectations moderated this process. Analyses of longitudinal data from 505 mother-child dyads yielded results consistent with a self-fulfilling prophecy. The inaccurate port…
Randomized trial of brief family interventions for general populations: Adolescent substance use outcomes 4 years following baseline.
Social Competence and Substance Use Among Rural Youth: Mediating Role of Social Benefit Expectancies of Use
Survey of Prevention‐Relevant Beliefs and Efforts to Enhance Parenting Skills Among Rural Parents
The first objective of this article is to summarize literature on selected variables that can influence parents' efforts to enhance their parenting skills, including participation in prevention‐oriented education and skills‐training programs. The second objective is to report the results of a survey of rural parents with preadolescents (N=203) on prevention‐relevant parenting beliefs and past parenting enhancement efforts, such as parent educatio…
Coronary Heart Disease Risk Scales and Reactivity in a Prevention Program Assessment: Failure to Show Positive Relationships
This study was designed to evaluate relationships among the Jenkins Activity Survey, the Cook-Medley Hostility Scale, and cardiovascular reactivity measured during a semistructured interview in a hospital setting. Subjects were 201 business persons participating in a cardiovascular risk assessment interview component of a fitness program. Correlation analysis showed little evidence of significant positive relationships between self-report scores …
Bulimic symptoms in high school females: Prevalence and relationship with multiple measures of psychological health
A 118-item survey assessed prevalence of bulimic symptomatology and examined multiple psychological health-related correlates in a sample of 2,042 midwestern high school females. Students completed the Bulimia Test (BULIT), Trait Anxiety Scale, Beck Depression Inventory, a General Self- Efficacy subscale, a Specific (eating) Self-Efficacy Scale, and the Goldfarb Fear of Fat Scale. Based on BULIT scores, 6.3% fell in the high symptom group, 9.3% f…
Toward a Comprehensive Strategy for Effective Practitioner-Scientist Partnerships and Larger-Scale Community Health and Well-Being
This article articulates joint priorities for the fields of prevention science and community psychology. These priorities are intended to address issues raised by the frequent observation of natural tensions between community practitioners and scientists. The first priority is to expand the knowledge base on practitioner-scientist partnerships, particularly on factors associated with positive outcomes within communities. To further articulate thi…
Influence of a Family‐Focused Substance Use Preventive Intervention on Growth in Adolescent Depressive Symptoms
Preparing for the Drug Free Years (PDFY) is a preventive intervention that targets parenting behaviors, family interaction patterns, and adolescent substance use, factors that have been shown to predict depression among teenagers. Effects of PDFY on trajectories of self‐reported adolescent depressive symptoms from 6th through 12th grade were examined. Latent growth curve modeling was used to analyze data from 429 rural adolescents from schools as…
Gender Moderation of the Intergenerational Transmission and Stability of Depressive Symptoms from Early Adolescence to Early Adulthood
Longitudinal Associations of Alcohol Involvement with Subjective Well-Being in Adolescence and Prediction to Alcohol Problems in Early Adulthood
The self-fulfilling influence of mother expectations on children's underage drinking
This research examined whether mothers' expectations about their children's drinking behavior influenced their children's future alcohol use through self-fulfilling prophecies. It also investigated whether children's self-esteem, family social class, or the valence of mother expectations moderated this process. Analyses of longitudinal data from 505 mother-child dyads yielded results consistent with a self-fulfilling prophecy. The inaccurate port…
Social Competence and Substance Use Among Rural Youth: Mediating Role of Social Benefit Expectancies of Use
Developmental Change in Adolescent Delinquency: Modeling Time-Varying Effects of a Preventative Intervention and Gabra2 Halpotype Linked to Alcohol Use
Bulimic symptoms in high school females: Prevalence and relationship with multiple measures of psychological health
A 118-item survey assessed prevalence of bulimic symptomatology and examined multiple psychological health-related correlates in a sample of 2,042 midwestern high school females. Students completed the Bulimia Test (BULIT), Trait Anxiety Scale, Beck Depression Inventory, a General Self- Efficacy subscale, a Specific (eating) Self-Efficacy Scale, and the Goldfarb Fear of Fat Scale. Based on BULIT scores, 6.3% fell in the high symptom group, 9.3% f…
Coronary Heart Disease Risk Scales and Reactivity in a Prevention Program Assessment: Failure to Show Positive Relationships
This study was designed to evaluate relationships among the Jenkins Activity Survey, the Cook-Medley Hostility Scale, and cardiovascular reactivity measured during a semistructured interview in a hospital setting. Subjects were 201 business persons participating in a cardiovascular risk assessment interview component of a fitness program. Correlation analysis showed little evidence of significant positive relationships between self-report scores …
Survey of Prevention‐Relevant Beliefs and Efforts to Enhance Parenting Skills Among Rural Parents
The first objective of this article is to summarize literature on selected variables that can influence parents' efforts to enhance their parenting skills, including participation in prevention‐oriented education and skills‐training programs. The second objective is to report the results of a survey of rural parents with preadolescents (N=203) on prevention‐relevant parenting beliefs and past parenting enhancement efforts, such as parent educatio…
Randomized trial of brief family interventions for general populations: Adolescent substance use outcomes 4 years following baseline.
Social Competence and Substance Use Among Rural Youth: Mediating Role of Social Benefit Expectancies of Use
The self-fulfilling influence of mother expectations on children's underage drinking
This research examined whether mothers' expectations about their children's drinking behavior influenced their children's future alcohol use through self-fulfilling prophecies. It also investigated whether children's self-esteem, family social class, or the valence of mother expectations moderated this process. Analyses of longitudinal data from 505 mother-child dyads yielded results consistent with a self-fulfilling prophecy. The inaccurate port…
The Strong African American Families Program: Translating Research Into Prevention Programming
A randomized prevention trial contrasted families who took part in the Strong African American Families Program (SAAF), a preventive intervention for rural African American mothers and their 11-year-olds, with control families. SAAF is based on a contextual model positing that regulated, communicative parenting causes changes in factors protecting youths from early alcohol use and sexual activity. Parenting variables included involvement-vigilanc…
Toward a Comprehensive Strategy for Effective Practitioner-Scientist Partnerships and Larger-Scale Community Health and Well-Being
This article articulates joint priorities for the fields of prevention science and community psychology. These priorities are intended to address issues raised by the frequent observation of natural tensions between community practitioners and scientists. The first priority is to expand the knowledge base on practitioner-scientist partnerships, particularly on factors associated with positive outcomes within communities. To further articulate thi…
Community and Team Member Factors that Influence the Early Phase Functioning of Community Prevention Teams: The PROSPER Project
Influence of a Family‐Focused Substance Use Preventive Intervention on Growth in Adolescent Depressive Symptoms
Preparing for the Drug Free Years (PDFY) is a preventive intervention that targets parenting behaviors, family interaction patterns, and adolescent substance use, factors that have been shown to predict depression among teenagers. Effects of PDFY on trajectories of self‐reported adolescent depressive symptoms from 6th through 12th grade were examined. Latent growth curve modeling was used to analyze data from 429 rural adolescents from schools as…
Long-Term Protective Factor Outcomes of Evidence-based Interventions Implemented by Community Teams Through a Community–University Partnership
Longitudinal Associations of Alcohol Involvement with Subjective Well-Being in Adolescence and Prediction to Alcohol Problems in Early Adulthood
Pathways to Sustainability: 8-Year Follow-Up From the PROSPER Project
Gender Moderation of the Intergenerational Transmission and Stability of Depressive Symptoms from Early Adolescence to Early Adulthood
Developmental Change in Adolescent Delinquency: Modeling Time-Varying Effects of a Preventative Intervention and Gabra2 Halpotype Linked to Alcohol Use
Predictors of Attendance Patterns in a Universal Family-Based Preventive Intervention Program
Psychology (14 works) · Medicine (12 works) · Clinical Psychology (11 works) · Developmental psychology (9 works) · Health psychology (8 works) · Psychiatry (8 works) · Public health (8 works) · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (7 works) · Clinical Psychology (6 works) · Community Health and Development (4 works)