The natural history of cigarette smoking from adolescence to adulthood in a midwestern community sample: multiple trajectories and their psychosocial correlates
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This article investigates the psychosocial patterns correlated with smoking behavior between adolescence and adulthood. Results indicate that variables such as level of education, parental support, deviance tolerance, and smoking environment are correlated with age of smoking onset, amounts regularly smoked, and stability of smoking behavior over time.
Publication Name: Health Psychology
Subject: Psychology and mental health
ISSN: 0278-6133
Year: 2000
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From adolescence to adulthood: age-related changes in beliefs about cigarette smoking in a midwestern community sample
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This article investigates the relationship between age, risk perception, smoking, and health behavior in students and adults.
Publication Name: Health Psychology
Subject: Psychology and mental health
ISSN: 0278-6133
Year: 2001
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Historical changes in cigarette smoking and smoking-related beliefs: after 2 decades in a midwestern community
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The amount of smoking among school children was investigated and it was found that it was more prevalent in 1980 than in 2001. Parent-child beliefs and attitudes partially mediated the effects of time on smoking.
Publication Name: Health Psychology
Subject: Psychology and mental health
ISSN: 0278-6133
Year: 2003
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