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SUBMITTER: Epperson AE
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6698224 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Epperson Anna E AE Wallander Jan L JL Song Anna V AV Depaoli Sarah S Peskin Melissa F MF Elliott Marc N MN Schuster Mark A MA
Journal of health psychology 20190217 4
Dual-process theories may be effective at predicting adolescent smoking; however, little is known about the effectiveness of these models across race/ethnicity and gender. Adolescents (<i>N</i> = 4035) completed biopsychosocial and tobacco-related perception measures in Grade 7 and reported on smoking initiation in Grade 10. Using structural equation modeling and comparing models by gender and race/ethnicity showed differences, where both intentions and willingness predicted smoking initiation f ...[more]