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Social Inoculation: A General Strategy to Resist Negative Social Pressures

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This entry provides a description of the development of the social inoculation model of health-risk behavior prevention (Evans, 1998, 2001; Evans & Getz, 2003). It connects this approach to its major derivative elaborations and recent extensions. It articulates a set of generic strategies for the creation of primary prevention programs that may have utility at various stages of the life course. This entry provides a view of the social inoculation model, extended discussions of the importance of targeting specific behaviors and populations, the importance of developmental perspectives, and discussion of the extension of the social inoculation model to the social norms approach to prevention. Results from the most recent Monitoring the Future university data (Johnston, O’Malley, Bachman, & Schulenberg, 2011) provide current prevalence rates for the use of potentially addictive behaviors (e.g., tobacco, alcohol, other drugs) among high school students. Results from the most recent...

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    Richard I. Evans

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    Clayton Neighbors

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Evans, R.I., Neighbors, C. (2014). Social Inoculation: A General Strategy to Resist Negative Social Pressures. In: Gullotta, T.P., Bloom, M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Primary Prevention and Health Promotion. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-5999-6_79

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