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Patterns of Cigarette Use Among Black and White Adolescents
Author(s) -
Feigelman William,
Lee Julia A.
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
the american journal on addictions
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.997
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1521-0391
pISSN - 1055-0496
DOI - 10.3109/10550499509038106
Subject(s) - logistic regression , demography , sibling , white (mutation) , psychology , peer group , peer influence , smoke , environmental health , medicine , developmental psychology , geography , biology , biochemistry , sociology , meteorology , gene
The authors compared peer and familial correlates of smoking among black and non‐Hispanic white teenagers. Some earlier school‐based studies suggested that black teens are predominately peer‐driven smokers and not especially influenced by parental smoking behavior. Using national and California‐based survey data, the authors applied logistic regression analysis to corroborate earlier research indicating, among both samples of black teens, that smoking was significantly associated with having best friends and siblings who smoke, and parental smoking did not correlate significantly with smoking. For the non‐Hispanic white sub‐samples, the evidence was less clear. Logistic regression data also showed adolescent smoking primarily as a peer‐ and sibling‐influenced activity.