Prospective social-psychological factors of adolescent smoking progression

Wang, Min Qi; Fitzhugh, Eugene C.; Green, Bernard Lee; Turner, Lori W.; Eddy, J. Mark; Westerfield, R. Carl

doi:10.1016/s1054-139x(98)00080-9

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“…Hence, social inoculation programmes alone may not suffice and smoking prevention methods may need a stronger emphasis on reinforcing non-smoking attitudes than resistance to peer pressure for this particular group. 41 Second, our results and other studies suggest that parental behaviours are still important for this age group, 21 47-49 although our study also suggests that the parental effect was not significant in all countries. Hence, studies analysing peer influences also need to include assessments of parental influences, since they have been found to be as least as important as peer influences in some countries for this age group.…”

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confidence: 52%

“…However, these analyses do not correct for confounders and interrelationships between the actors (parents, friends and parents). The findings based on 41 An interpretation of the path from T1 adolescent's smoking behaviour to T2 friends' smoking behaviour as social influence is highly unlikely, given that we did not find evidence for the social influence path from friends (a group of adolescents) to the adolescent.…”

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confidence: 68%

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Challenges to the peer influence paradigm: results for 12–13 year olds from six European countries from the European Smoking Prevention Framework Approach study

Vries¹,

Candel²,

Engels³

et al. 2006

Tob Control

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Objective:To examine whether smoking onset in young adolescents is predicted by peer or parental smoking.Design:Longitudinal design with one pretest and one follow-up at 12 months.Setting:Schools in Finland, Denmark, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Spain and Portugal.Participants:7102 randomly selected adolescents from six countries. Mean age was 12.78 years.Main outcome measures:Smoking behaviour of adolescents, peers and parents.Results:No support was found for peer smoking as an important predictor of smoking onset in most countries. Support was found for the selection paradigm, implying that adolescents choose friends with similar smoking behaviour. Support for the impact of parents on adolescent behaviour and the choice of friends was also found.Conclusions:Smoking uptake in this age cohort may be more strongly influenced by personal and parental influences than initially believed. Hence, social inoculation programmes teaching youngsters to resist the pressures to smoke may be less appropriate if youngsters have a positive attitude towards smoking, associate smoking with various advantages and look for peers with similar values. For this group attitudes towards smoking may thus guide future friend selection.

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Challenges to the peer influence paradigm: results for 12–13 year olds from six European countries from the European Smoking Prevention Framework Approach study

Vries¹,

Candel²,

Engels³

et al. 2006

Tob Control

142

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“…Several studies from other countries also showed that when controlling for peer influence, the effect of parental smoking behaviour has non-significant results (14,15). According to other studies (28)(29)(30)(31) parental smoking can also be a strong predictor of the transition to regular smoking. Our study population had recently transitioned to senior high school; this may have prompted feelings of increasing maturity among the students, which caused them to turn away from parental influence and towards the influence of their friends' smoking behaviour.…”

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Predictability of smoking onset among Romanian adolescents

Lotrean¹,

Mesters²,

Ionut³

et al. 2014

Slovenian Journal of Public Health

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Ključne besede: dejavniki kajenja, romunski mladostniki, preprečevanje kajenja stronger intention to smoke in the future will predict smoking onset. Second, we compare the outcomes and amount of variance explained when using a crosssectional compared to a longitudinal design. METHODS Sample and procedureIn spring 2004, five senior high schools from ClujNapoca, a city in north-west Romania with approximately 330,000 inhabitants and 39 high schools, were randomly chosen and approached to participate in a survey about adolescent smoking behaviour. Time and financial constraints limited the inclusion of more schools in the study. The principals of the five schools were informed about the survey during individual meetings with the research team; all principals agreed to participate, and all first-year classes from the five schools were involved in the survey. Consent was obtained from the school administration only, in line with standard procedure in Romania. Data were gathered in two waves. A baseline measurement was conducted in May-June 2004 (T1) among students from 19 first-year senior high school classes (aged 15 to 17), and a follow-up measurement was performed 12 months later (T2). The students were not informed in advance about the date on which the assessment would take place. The research team administered the questionnaires to each class; classroom completion of the questionnaire took approximately 50 minutes. Students were asked to read an introductory letter. They were assured that the researchers would treat their questionnaires confidentially and that they could refuse to participate by leaving the questionnaire blank. They put their completed questionnaires in an envelope, sealed it and wrote their names on the envelope and then the researchers collected the envelopes. No refusals were recorded; non-participation was exclusively due to absence of students on the day of assessment. The questionnaires were filled in by 473 students at T1 and 482 students at T2. A total of 416 students participated in both measurements; 66.5% of these were girls.

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“…45 While there is evidence to support the notion that depressed smokers self-medicate by smoking, [56][57][58] other evidence suggests that smoking, particularly during adolescence, increases the risk of developing depression later in life. [59][60][61] Still, other studies have suggested that common genetic factors may contribute to both smoking and major depression without one causing the other.…”

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Nicotinic acetylcholine receptors as targets for antidepressants

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While the monoamine deficiency hypothesis of depression is still most commonly used to explain the actions of antidepressant drugs, a growing body of evidence has accumulated that is not adequately explained by the hypothesis. This article draws attention to contributions from another apparently common pharmacological property of antidepressant medications-the inhibition of nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChR). Evidence is presented suggesting the hypercholinergic neurotransmission, which is associated with depressed mood states, may be mediated through excessive neuronal nicotinic receptor activation and that the therapeutic actions of many antidepressants may be, in part, mediated through inhibition of these receptors. In support of this hypothesis, preliminary evidence is presented suggesting that the potent, centrally acting nAChR antagonist, mecamylamine, which is devoid of monoamine reuptake inhibition, may reduce symptoms of depression and mood instability in patients with comorbid depression and bipolar disorder. If this hypothesis is supported by further preclinical and clinical research, nicotinic acetylcholine receptor antagonists may represent a novel class of therapeutic agents for treating mood disorders.

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Prospective social-psychological factors of adolescent smoking progression

Cited by 66 publications

References 15 publications

Challenges to the peer influence paradigm: results for 12–13 year olds from six European countries from the European Smoking Prevention Framework Approach study

Challenges to the peer influence paradigm: results for 12–13 year olds from six European countries from the European Smoking Prevention Framework Approach study

Predictability of smoking onset among Romanian adolescents

Nicotinic acetylcholine receptors as targets for antidepressants

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