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Depressive mood, the single-parent home, and adolescent cigarette smoking.

Author(s) -

Lirio S. Covey,

Doreen Tam

Publication year - 1990

Publication title -

american journal of public health

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.284

H-Index - 264

eISSN - 1541-0048

pISSN - 0090-0036

DOI - 10.2105/ajph.80.11.1330

Subject(s) - mood , logistic regression , depressive mood , cigarette smoking , association (psychology) , depression (economics) , clinical psychology , psychiatry , depressed mood , medicine , psychology , demography , multivariate analysis , depressive symptoms , anxiety , sociology , economics , psychotherapist , macroeconomics

The association between depressive mood and cigarette smoking among adolescents was examined within a multivariate model. Subjects were 205 eleventh graders (123 boys and 82 girls) enrolled in a Northeast metropolitan public high school for science-oriented students. Logistic regression analysis showed an independent relation of depressive mood, friends' smoking behavior, and living in a single-parent home with cigarette smoking. Depression scores correlated with the number of cigarettes smoked. These associations suggest that depressive mood and stress may contribute to the onset of smoking.

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