Changing Correlates of Cigarette Smoking from Adolescence to Adulthood.

Autor/inn/en	Stein, Judith A.; und weitere
Titel	Changing Correlates of Cigarette Smoking from Adolescence to Adulthood.
Quelle	(1992), (8 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Beigaben	Tabellen
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Adolescents; Correlation; Depression (Psychology); Extraversion Introversion; Interpersonal Relationship; Junior High School Students; Junior High Schools; Longitudinal Studies; Personality Traits; Smoking; Trend Analysis; Young Adults + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Korrelation; Interpersonal relation; Interpersonal relations; Interpersonelle Beziehung; Zwischenmenschliche Beziehung; Junior High Schools; Student; Students; Sekundarstufe I; Schüler; Schülerin; Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung; Individual characteristics; Personality characteristic; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; Rauchen; Trendanalyse; Young adult; Junger Erwachsener
Abstract	This study examined whether and at what time point various interpersonal and intrapersonal correlates of smoking shifted over four assessment points in a longitudinal study of 461 individuals. The study began when the subjects, who had been participating in a study of adolescent and young adult development were in junior high school. Four assessment points, 4 years apart were available for this study. Latent variables representing Cigarette Use, Social Relations, Extraversion, and Depression were intercorrelated within each time period. As hypothesized, a substantial shift in the patterns of intercorrelations was found over time. At Time 1, when the subjects were in junior high school and may be described as experimenters, Cigarette Use was positively correlated with good Social Relations and Extraversion, and negatively with Depression. Only four years later Cigarette Use was significantly and positively correlated with Depression, negatively correlated with good Social Relations, and only minimally correlated with Extraversion. At Times 3 and 4 when subjects were in their early and late 20s the same pattern emerged of a significant positive correlation between smoking and Depression, a negative correlation with good Social Relations, and a minimal correlation with Extraversion. These results indicate that smoking in response to peer pressure alone may not continue; those who continue smoking may use it to relieve tension and for self-medication. (Author/ABL)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2004/1/01