Open AccessUnique contributions of meanings of smoking and outcome expectancies to understanding smoking initiation in middle school
Author(s) -
Donna SpruijtMetz,
Peggy Gallaher,
Jennifer B. Unger,
C. Anderson Johnson
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
annals of behavioral medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.701
H-Index - 133
eISSN - 1532-4796
pISSN - 0883-6612
DOI - 10.1207/s15324796abm3002_2
Subject(s) - psychology , health psychology , developmental psychology , middle class , multivariate analysis , cigarette smoking , social psychology , clinical psychology , medicine , public health , political science , law , nursing
Previous research has shown that meanings of smoking are highly predictive of smoking in middle school children. Three factors of meanings of smoking have been suggested in the literature: personal meanings, functional meanings, and social meanings. These conceptually derived factors of meanings of smoking have not previously been empirically studied.
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