Effect of parental smoking classification on the association between parental and adolescent smoking

Prior studies of the relationship between smoking by parents and their children have considered only current smoking by parents. In this study of 12- to 14-year-old adolescents, however, lifetime parental smoking was more strongly correlated with adolescent smoking than was current parental smoking....

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Published in:Addictive behaviors 1990, Vol.15 (5), p.413-422
Main Authors: Bauman, Karl E., Foshee, Vangie A., Linzer, Mary A., Koch, Gary G.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
Biological and medical sciences
Female
Humans
Longitudinal Studies
Male
Medical sciences
Parent-Child Relations
Parents - psychology
Personality Development
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychopathology. Psychiatry
Smoking - psychology
Smoking Prevention
Social Environment
Social psychiatry. Ethnopsychiatry
Sociocultural environment
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Summary:Prior studies of the relationship between smoking by parents and their children have considered only current smoking by parents. In this study of 12- to 14-year-old adolescents, however, lifetime parental smoking was more strongly correlated with adolescent smoking than was current parental smoking. Indeed, lifetime parental smoking was a strongly correlated as peer smoking with adolescent smoking, and peer smoking is often considered to be the main determinant of adolescent smoking. These findings suggest that the relative role of parent smoking in adolescent smoking has been underestimated, and that new explanations for the association between parental and adolescent smoking are necessary.
ISSN:0306-4603
1873-6327
DOI:10.1016/0306-4603(90)90027-U