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The Influence of Parental Attitude and Behavior on Early Adolescent Cigarette Smoking
Author(s) -
Newman Ian M.,
Ward Jolene M.
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
journal of school health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.851
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 1746-1561
pISSN - 0022-4391
DOI - 10.1111/j.1746-1561.1989.tb04688.x
Subject(s) - cigarette smoking , psychology , developmental psychology , behavior change , attitude change , health behavior , smoking prevention , social psychology , public health , environmental health , medicine , nursing
In 1983, Nolle and colleagues reported parental attitude may be more powerful than parental behavior in shaping adolescent cigarette smoking behavior. This study replicates the finding of Nolte et al and suggests parents need to be actively recruited to discourage their children from smoking, regardless of their own behavior. Fewer parents actively discourage youth smoking today than in 1983, a possible unfortunate result from an apparently successful effort to change the public attitude toward cigarette smoking.