Gender and racial/ethnic differences in adolescent intentions and willingness to smoke cigarettes: Evaluation of a structural equation model

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• Alternative Title:
  J Health Psychol
• Personal Author:
  Epperson, Anna E. ; Wallander, Jan L. ; Song, Anna V. ; Depaoli, Sarah ; Peskin, Melissa F. ; Elliott, Marc N. ; Schuster, Mark A.
• Description:
  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 (| = 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 for only Black and male adolescents, compared to their Latino and White and female counterparts. Intentions and willingness appear to play a role in whether an adolescent will initiate smoking in the future, but this does not apply universally across gender and race/ethnicity.
• Subjects:
  Adolescent Ethnicity Female Humans Intention Male Nicotiana Smoke Smoking Tobacco Products
• Keywords:
  Adolescent Cigarette Smoking Dual-process Model Gender Race/Ethnicity
• Source:
  J Health Psychol. 26(4):605-619
• Pubmed ID:
  30773937
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC6698224
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  U48 DP000057/DP/NCCDPHP CDC HHSUnited States/ ; U19 DP002663/DP/NCCDPHP CDC HHSUnited States/ ; U48 DP000056/DP/NCCDPHP CDC HHSUnited States/ ; U48 DP000046/DP/NCCDPHP CDC HHSUnited States/ ; T32 HL007034/HL/NHLBI NIH HHSUnited States/ ; U19 DP002665/DP/NCCDPHP CDC HHSUnited States/ ; U19 DP002664/DP/NCCDPHP CDC HHSUnited States/
• Volume:
  26
• Issue:
  4
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
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