Child and adolescent predictors of smoking involvement in emerging adulthood.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

This study examined the differential relationship of externalizing behavior, internalizing behavior, social context, and their interactions to three developmental indicators of smoking involvement: onset (age), amount of smoking, and dependence symptomatology.

Method

Participants (n = 504, 73% male) from a high-risk community-based longitudinal study were followed from age 12-14 to young adulthood (18-20). Smoking involvement was conceptualized as a process involving differences in (a) age of onset of smoking, (b) amount of smoking at age 18-20, and (c) level of nicotine dependence symptomatology at age 18-20. Survival analysis was used to predict onset of smoking, regression for smoking level, and zero-inflated Poisson regression for nicotine dependence.

Result

SUBMITTER: Jester JM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6552681 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature