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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. RESULTS:Externalizing (teacher report) and internalizing behavior (youth self-report), prior to the onset of smoking, predicted different components of smoking and nicotine dependence in young adulthood. Parental smoking predicted all levels of smoking involvement. Peer smoking was related to early onset of smoking, but not higher levels of smoking involvement. Externalizing and internalizing behavior interacted to predict nicotine dependence level, with higher levels of internalizing behavior predicting higher levels of dependence symptoms, even at low levels of externalizing behavior. CONCLUSIONS:Externalizing and internalizing behavior and social context are independent and interacting risk factors that come into play at different points in the developmental process occurring between smoking onset and dependence. This study provides important information for theoretical models of smoking progression and shows that different types of risk should be targeted for prevention at different points in smoking progression. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved).

SUBMITTER: Jester JM

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

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Child and adolescent predictors of smoking involvement in emerging adulthood.

Jester Jennifer M JM Glass Jennifer M JM Bohnert Kipling M KM Nigg Joel T JT Wong Maria M MM Zucker Robert A RA

Health psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association 20190201 2

<h4>Objective</h4>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.<h4>Method</h4>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 dif ...[more]

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Project description:AimsTo estimate interactions and unique effects of behavioral approach and behavioral control on alcohol involvement hypothesized by dual-systems models, during adolescence and emerging adulthood.DesignIn a longitudinal study, behavioral approach and behavioral control were examined in relation to alcohol involvement, cross-sectionally and prospectively.Setting and participantsA total of 846 general population twins born in Colorado, USA were assessed twice (mean = 17.3 and 22.8 years; female = 51.4%; white = 91.8%).MeasurementsBehavioral approach was measured by self-report questionnaires of sensation-seeking and subjective effects of alcohol. Behavioral control was measured by self-reported lack of planning and nine executive functioning (EF) tasks. Interviewers administered semi-structured clinical interviews to assess alcohol use and disorder (AUD).FindingsNone of 36 interaction effects was statistically significant (β = -0.16-0.14, P > 0.06), suggesting that dual systems are additively related to alcohol involvement. In multiple regression models, behavioral approach and behavioral control explained independent variance in alcohol use quantity (β = 0.09-0.33, P < 0.04) and frequency (β = -0.11-0.29, P < 0.03) at both waves. During adolescence, only subjective effects (β = 0.27-0.28, P < 0.001) explained independent variance in AUD. Moreover, measures of the same construct explained independent variance in alcohol involvement: for behavioral control, lack of planning and EF were associated with alcohol frequency in adolescence (β = -0.11-0.25, P < 0.02) and AUD in emerging adulthood (β = -0.09-0.16, P < 0.03). For the behavioral approach, subjective effects were associated with all measures at both waves (β = 0.20-0.33, P < 0.01) and sensation-seeking was associated with all measures in emerging adulthood (β = 0.09-0.11, P < 0.04). In prospective models, adolescent alcohol involvement was associated with later lack of planning (β = 0.12-0.18, P < 0.03) and lack of planning in adolescence was associated with later alcohol involvement (β = 0.12-0.14, P < 0.02).ConclusionsBoth the behavioral approach and behavioral control components of dual-systems models explain alcohol involvement during adolescence and adulthood, and different measures of the same system assess separate risk processes. The relations between alcohol involvement and the dual systems appear to be bidirectional.

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