Does It Matter What Friends Think, Say, or Do? The Role of Friends’ Smoking Attitudes and Behavior for Dutch Adolescents’ Smoking Behavior

Huisman, Chip

doi:10.3109/10826084.2013.863347

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“…The potential interpretation is that only a few students disagreed with friends smoking and the amount of smokers remained neutral with friends smoking, with less concern for friends smoking status and friends physical health. Besides, smoking initiation was positively associated with having more friends that smoke (Huisman 2014), and previous finding suggested that friends tended to select each other on similar smoking behavior (Voorhees et al 2011), which might explain that the amount of smokers knowing the hazards of smoking still hold the neutral attitude towards friends smoking and may even they agreed with friends smoking.…”

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Knowledge about and sources of smoking-related knowledge, and influencing factors among male urban secondary school students in Chongqing, China

Chen

Abdullah

et al. 2016

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ObjectivesThis study examined smoking-related knowledge, sources of smoking-related knowledge and its influencing factor among male urban secondary school students.MethodsWe conducted a cross-sectional survey, using a self-administered questionnaire, among 1297 male secondary school students in municipal areas of Chongqing, China.ResultsNon-smokers had a better knowledge of smoking hazards than smokers. Less than 20% of students knew that smoking can cause heart disease, peptic ulcer, and cerebral stroke. Sources of smoking-related knowledge differed between smokers and non-smokers, respectively: TV (76.5 vs. 76.7%), teacher (70.1 vs. 62.4%), social network (66.6 vs. 73.1%), parents (57.0 vs. 59.2%), newspaper (55.4 vs. 61.6%), and friends (37.7 vs. 33.9%). Non-smokers’ hobbies of reading were significantly higher than smokers’ (χ2 = 11.5845, p = 0.0007). Smokers’ hobbies of online games (χ2 = 14.9106, p = 0.0001), and sports (χ2 = 4.8609, p = 0.0275) were significantly higher than non-smokers’. Generalized estimating equations (GEE) found that students whose both father and mother smoke were unable to receive tobacco-related knowledge. GEE also found that students in high school, with affluent family economic condition and with an opposing attitude towards father smoking possessed a better smoking-related knowledge. However, male students with disagreement or neutral attitude towards friends smoking were negatively associated with the knowledge of smoking hazards.ConclusionsThe findings of the present study suggest that a significant proportion of male secondary school students in urban Chongqing lack specific knowledge about smoking-related diseases. Targeted educational programs for secondary school students in China are needed to promote tobacco control and tobacco use reduction and cessation among students.

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Knowledge about and sources of smoking-related knowledge, and influencing factors among male urban secondary school students in Chongqing, China

Chen

Abdullah

et al. 2016

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“…Recent studies that utilize developments in social network analysis have found that friendship selection also plays an important role. That is, adolescents tend to befriend peers whose risk behaviors are similar to their own, as has been found in studies of alcohol use (Kiuru et al 2010; Knecht et al 2011; Mercken, Steglich, Knibbe, et al 2012; Sznitman 2013), smoking (de Vries et al 2006; Huisman 2014; Mercken, Steglich, Sinclair, et al 2012), drug use (Poulin et al 2011), delinquent behaviors (Knecht et al 2010), and internalizing behaviors such as depressive symptoms (Goodwin et al 2012; Kiuru et al 2012) and anxiety (Van Zalk et al 2011). Youth also show strong preferences to select friends with similar demographics such as age, race/ethnicity, and gender (Goodreau et al 2009; Moody 2001); attributes that are often correlated with these risk behaviors and so may heighten the similarity in substance use among friends.…”

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Befriending Risky Peers: Factors Driving Adolescents’ Selection of Friends with Similar Marijuana Use

Green

Pollard

Kennedy

et al. 2014

J Youth Adolescence

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Adolescents often befriend peers who are similar to themselves on a range of demographic, behavioral, and social characteristics, including substance use. Similarities in lifetime history of marijuana use have even been found to predict adolescent friendships, and we examine whether this finding is explained by youth’s selection of friends who are similar on a range of more proximate, observable characteristics that are risk factors for marijuana use. Using two waves of individual and social network data from two high schools that participated in Add Health (N = 1,612; 52.7% male), we apply longitudinal models for social networks to test whether or not several observable risky attributes (psychological, behavioral, and social) predict adolescent friendship choices, and if these preferences explain friend’s similarities on lifetime marijuana use. Findings show that similarities on several risk factors predict friendship choices, however controlling for this, the preference to befriend peers with a similar history of marijuana use largely persists. The results highlight the range of social selection processes that lead to similarities in marijuana use among friends and larger peer groups, and that also give rise to friendship groups whose members share similar risk factors for substance use. Friends with high “collective risk” are likely to be important targets for preventing the onset and social diffusion of substance use in adolescents.

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“…They tend to befriend as well as choose to affiliate with peers whose attitudes and behaviors resemble their own on alcohol use [ 25 – 27 ]. The same socialization pattern applies to smoking [ 28 ] and drug use [ 29 ]. Individuals also tend to overestimate the substance use of their peers, resulting in their own higher levels of substance use [ 30 , 31 ].…”

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Differences in substance use by sexual orientation and gender among Jewish young adults in Israel

Bonny-Noach

Shechory-Bitton

2020

Isr J Health Policy Res

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Background This study focuses on sexual orientation and gender-based differences among Israeli young adult substance use behaviors. In addition, it evaluates young adult perception of substance use and acceptance of substances use by close friends. Methods We conducted a cross-sectional study. A self-reported anonymous questionnaire was distributed to a convenience sample of 496 young-adults (age: M = 23.14, SD = 2.48), which included 126 heterosexual males, 128 heterosexual females, 131 gay men, and 111 lesbians. Results This study revealed significant sexual orientation and gender differences in all outcomes examined. Significant substance usage differences were found for same-sex orientation as 52% reported cannabis use and 24% reported using other illegal substances during the past 12 months compared to 34 and 6% (respectively) among heterosexuals. Significant gender differences were found, as male participants reported 50% cannabis use and 19% reported other illegal substance use in the past 12 months compared to 35 and 11% (respectively) among females. Additionally, compared with heterosexuals, gay men and lesbians perceived/assessed significantly higher substance usage rates among their close friends and higher levels of substance use acceptance by close friends. Regression models indicated the important role of respondent perceived and acceptance of substance use among close friends. Binge drinking, cannabis use, and other illegal substance use were positively associated with participants’ perceived substance use and substance use acceptance level by close friends, after controlling for gender, sexual orientation, age, and level of education. Conclusions Close friends and community norms can play an important role in shaping substance usage among young adults, especially among gay men and lesbians. The results of the current study highlight the need for developing prevention and harm reduction drug policies for Israeli young adults, especially for gay men and lesbians. Interventions should also focus on young adult peers and community norms related to substance use by professionals in educational, policy-making, and therapeutic contexts.

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Does It Matter What Friends Think, Say, or Do? The Role of Friends’ Smoking Attitudes and Behavior for Dutch Adolescents’ Smoking Behavior

Cited by 14 publications

References 36 publications

Knowledge about and sources of smoking-related knowledge, and influencing factors among male urban secondary school students in Chongqing, China

Knowledge about and sources of smoking-related knowledge, and influencing factors among male urban secondary school students in Chongqing, China

Befriending Risky Peers: Factors Driving Adolescents’ Selection of Friends with Similar Marijuana Use

Differences in substance use by sexual orientation and gender among Jewish young adults in Israel

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