Perceptions of Smoking and Nonsmoking Peers: The Value of Smoker and Nonsmoker Prototypes in Predicting Smoking Onset and Regular Smoking among Adolescents

Autor/inn/en	Spijkerman, Renske; Van Den Eijnden, Regina J. J. M.; Engels, Rutger C. M. E.
Titel	Perceptions of Smoking and Nonsmoking Peers: The Value of Smoker and Nonsmoker Prototypes in Predicting Smoking Onset and Regular Smoking among Adolescents
Quelle	In: Health Education & Behavior, 34 (2007) 6, S.897-910 (14 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1090-1981
DOI	10.1177/1090198106294642
Schlagwörter	Smoking; Early Adolescents; Preadolescents; Grade 8; Attitude Measures; Student Attitudes; Foreign Countries; Secondary School Students; Decision Making; Peer Influence; Predictor Variables; Urban Schools; Suburban Schools; Followup Studies; Questionnaires; Netherlands + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Rauchen; Pre-adolescence; Präadoleszenz; School year 08; 8. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 08; Schülerverhalten; Ausland; Sekundarschüler; Decision-making; Entscheidungsfindung; Prädiktor; Urban area; Urban areas; School; Schools; Stadtregion; Stadt; Schule; Suburban area; Outskirts; Suburb; Vorort; Vorstadt; Follow-up studies; Kontaktstudium; Fragebogen; Niederlande
Abstract	Adolescents' perceptions of persons their age who smoke cigarettes (also known as prototypes of smoking peers) play a critical role in an adolescent's decision to start smoking. However, adolescents' perceptions of their peers who do not smoke (prototypes of nonsmoking peers) could be implicated in adolescents' smoking decisions as well. In the present study, the authors examined the additional role of nonsmoker prototypes in adolescents' smoking onset and regular smoking. At seven high schools, Dutch students (n = 1,035) between the ages of 12 and 15 years who were attending the eighth grade provided self-reported data on their smoker and nonsmoker prototypes and smoking behavior during a baseline and 6-month follow-up measurement. Logistic regression analyses showed that both smoker and nonsmoker prototypes assessed at Time 1 predicted smoking onset by Time 2 among nonsmoking adolescents. However, only nonsmoker prototypes predicted regular smoking among adolescents who smoked occasionally at baseline. (Contains 3 tables and 3 notes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10