Using peer injunctive norms to predict early adolescent cigarette smoking intentions

Zaleski, Adam C.; Aloise-Young, Patricia A.

doi:10.1111/jasp.12080

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“…A focus theory of normative conduct posits that individuals are more likely to engage in a behavior when they believe that important others think they should participate in that behavior (i.e., injunctive norms) and when individuals perceive that others around them are partaking in that behavior (i.e., descriptive norms). Previous studies have shown that injunctive norms (Zaleski & Aloise‐Young, ) and descriptive norms (Brooks‐Russell, Simons‐Morton, Haynie, Farhat, & Wang, ) are significantly associated with adolescents' drinking and smoking intentions and actual behaviors. In addition to injunctive and descriptive norms, Elek, Miller‐Day, and Hecht () added personal norms (i.e., internalized moral values of right and wrong) by examining adolescents' own beliefs regarding whether they should use substances.…”

Section: Primary Socialization Theory and Peer Influences On Substancmentioning

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Longitudinal Effects of Best‐Friend Communication Against Substance Use for Latino and Non‐Latino White Early Adolescents

Kam

Wang

2014

J of Research on Adolesc

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Prior research examining peer influences on adolescent alcohol, cigarette, and marijuana use has primarily focused on the positive associations that peer substance use and offers have with adolescent use. Consequently, such research has often emphasized the negative influences of peers. This study, however, operationalizes peer influence through bestfriend communication against substance use and examines whether it indirectly protects against substance use by promoting anti-substance use norms. Structural equation modeling was utilized with longitudinal survey data from 277 Latino and 350 non-Latino white 6th-8th-grade-students. For Latino and non-Latino white students, best-friend communication was indirectly related to alcohol and cigarette use through norms. Best-friend communication also was indirectly related to marijuana use, but only for non-Latino white students and for male students.

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Section: Primary Socialization Theory and Peer Influences On Substancmentioning

confidence: 99%

Longitudinal Effects of Best‐Friend Communication Against Substance Use for Latino and Non‐Latino White Early Adolescents

Kam

Wang

2014

J of Research on Adolesc

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“…Research provides evidence that supports the influence of peers’ (dis)approval and parents’ (dis)approval on adolescents’ smoking and intention [20–23, 36, 37], but while peer influence increases with adolescents’ age, parent influence decreases [21, 36]. …”

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Parents’ and peers’ normative influence on adolescents’ smoking: results from a Swiss-Italian sample of middle schools students

Scalici

Schulz

2017

Subst Abuse Treat Prev Policy

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Background and methodAdolescents observe and imitate people to whom they are associated in their social context, and the normative factors sent out by reference groups are crucial determinants of their decision to smoke. The aim of the study is to investigate how adolescents’ smoking changes when they are exposed to factors of pro-smoking normative influence by parents and peers, and how age moderate this relation. A cross sectional survey collected data from 5657 students, aged between 11 and 14, from public and private middle schools in the Italian region of Switzerland (Ticino) on their smoking habits, perceived parents’ and peers’ approval and smoking.ResultsMultinomial logistic regression show that, as adolescents get older, more of the pro-smoking factors come from peers and parents, the higher the risk gets of being a “heavy smoker” has compared against having no experience with smoking. Living in a context with no factor of normative influence toward smoking play a protective role against smoking, and this effect becomes more important than more harmful the smoking behavior in question is. Furthermore, peers’ descriptive norms are more influential for adolescents to become “light” and “heavy smokers”, while smoking being approved by peers is important for adolescents to become accustomed to smoking.ConclusionsFindings support the different influence of parents’ and peers’ norms on adolescents’ smoking, and highlight the importance of peers’ model behavior as the most important factor influencing smoking during adolescence. Such results have implications for programs that aim to prevent or reduce smoking in early adolescence when friendship choice starts to become crucial.

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“…10 Peer norms or perception of peer smoking has also been shown to influence smoking prevalence. 11,12 The overwhelming majority of Not mutually exclusive categories, participants could select more than one category. respondents, regardless of their smoking status, overestimated the smoking prevalence on campus.…”

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Recruitment and Baseline Characteristics of American Indian Tribal College Students Participating in a Tribal College Tobacco and Behavioral Survey

Choi

Nazir

Pacheco

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NICTOB

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AIs have the highest cigarette smoking rates compared to other racial/ethnic groups in the United States. Furthermore, limited studies have examined the epidemiology of cigarette smoking among tribal college students. This study addresses health disparities related to smoking among college students by examining the demographic, cultural, and environmental characteristics of smoking and quitting. Results from this study could lead to the development of a culturally-tailored smoking cessation and prevention program for American Indian tribal college students.

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Using peer injunctive norms to predict early adolescent cigarette smoking intentions

Cited by 40 publications

References 46 publications

Longitudinal Effects of Best‐Friend Communication Against Substance Use for Latino and Non‐Latino White Early Adolescents

Longitudinal Effects of Best‐Friend Communication Against Substance Use for Latino and Non‐Latino White Early Adolescents

Parents’ and peers’ normative influence on adolescents’ smoking: results from a Swiss-Italian sample of middle schools students

Recruitment and Baseline Characteristics of American Indian Tribal College Students Participating in a Tribal College Tobacco and Behavioral Survey

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