Developmental Trajectories of Cigarette Smoking and Their Correlates From Early Adolescence to Young Adulthood

Autor/inn/en	Orlando, Maria; Tucker, Joan S.; Ellickson, Phyllis L.; Klein, David J.
Titel	Developmental Trajectories of Cigarette Smoking and Their Correlates From Early Adolescence to Young Adulthood
Quelle	In: Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 72 (2004) 3, S.400-410 (10 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0022-006X
Schlagwörter	Adults; Adolescents; Risk; Prevention; Intervention; Smoking; Statistical Analysis; Correlation + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Risiko; Prävention; Vorbeugung; Rauchen; Statistische Analyse; Korrelation
Abstract	Smoking initiation typically occurs in adolescence and increases over time into emerging adulthood. Thus adolescence and emerging adulthood compose a critical time period for prevention and intervention efforts. To inform these efforts, this study used latent growth mixture modeling to identify 6 smoking trajectories from ages 13 to 23 among 5,914 individuals: nonsmokers (28%), stable highs (6%), early increasers (10%), late increasers (10%), decreasers (6%), and triers (40%). By age 23, the trajectories merged into 2 distinct groups of low- and high-frequency and their standing on age 23 outcomes reflected this grouping. Consideration of these results can help researchers identify at-risk individuals before their smoking becomes too problematic, providing an opportunity for intervention and possible prevention of nicotine dependence. (Author).
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