Doctoral Dissertations
Date of Award
5-2013
Degree Type
Dissertation
Degree Name
Doctor of Philosophy
Major
Social Work
Major Professor
William R. Nugent
Committee Members
John S. Wodarski, Cynthia Rocha, Shawn Spurgeon
Abstract
The purpose of this dissertation is to investigate relationships between gender and race as it pertains to communication with parents about substance abuse and attitudes about substance abuse, using Teams-Games-Tournaments as an intervention. The scope of the substance abuse problem, adolescent communication and attitudes regarding substance abuse literature, attachment theory, and Teams-Games-Tournaments intervention literature are reviewed. Secondary data was used with a repeated measures design, with 159 subjects at baseline, 112 at exit, and 99 at follow-up. The Statistical Package for Social Sciences and Hierarchical Linear Modeling were used for analysis. Findings suggest that gender and race are not significant factors in pre-test scores nor rates of change in adolescent substance abuse communication and attitude using Teams-Games-Tournaments as an intervention.
Recommended Citation
Burford, Michael Lee, "Is There a Relationship between Teams-Games-Tournaments and Changes in Communication and Attitude about Substance Abuse?. " PhD diss., University of Tennessee, 2013.
https://trace.tennessee.edu/utk_graddiss/1700