Stressful life events, smoking behavior, and intentions to smoke among a multiethnic sample of sixth graders

Booker, Cara L; Gallaher, Peggy; Unger, Jennifer B.; Ritt-Olson, Anamara; Johnson, C. Anderson

doi:10.1080/1355785042000285384

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“…Fourth, similar to other studies (Booker et al 2004;Tickle et al 2006) we relied on single items to measure intrapersonal factors and this may have affected our results. Intrapersonal factors encompasses several types of behaviors and examining a wider range of these behaviors would be useful for identifying which intrapersonal behaviors are associated with smoking and would be the best targets for interventions.…”

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Intrapersonal and Ecodevelopmental Factors Associated with Smoking in Hispanic Adolescents

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We examined how relationships among intrapersonal (i.e., attitudes and beliefs about smoking) and ecodevelopmental (i.e., family, school, and peer) factors influence risk for lifetime smoking in immigrant Hispanic adolescents. Our sample was comprised of 223 immigrant Hispanic adolescents and their families and was drawn from 3 middle schools in a single school district. Data collected is a result of adolescent and parent completed questionnaires as well as county school data (i.e., GPA, teacher reported effort and conduct, absences). Results indicated only poor school functioning, peer smoking, and lack of perceived harm concerning smoking were directly related to adolescent lifetime smoking. Poor school functioning and peer smoking mediated the relationship between family functioning and adolescent smoking. Implications of these results for the design of smoking preventive interventions for immigrant Hispanic adolescents are discussed.

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Intrapersonal and Ecodevelopmental Factors Associated with Smoking in Hispanic Adolescents

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“…10,12,[14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22] Stress experienced by children or their parents may also have indirect effects on asthma by causing health-compromising behaviors and comorbidities that adversely affect disease management. [23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34] Caregiver stress, negative life events, problematic family relationships, parenting difficulties, critical attitudes of one's mother and violence exposure have been related to wheeze, asthma onset, and/or adverse asthma outcomes among infants and youths. 14,15,[20][21][22][29][30][31][32][35][36][37][38][39][40][41] The housing and health relationship has long been acknowledged, not surprising given that water, warmth, air, shelter, and safety are fundamental human needs.…”

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Stress and the City: Housing Stressors are Associated with Respiratory Health among Low Socioeconomic Status Chicago Children

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Asthma disproportionately affects non-whites in urban areas and those of low socioeconomic status, yet asthma's social patterning is not well-explained by known risk factors. We hypothesized that disadvantaged urban populations experience acute and chronic housing stressors which produce psychological stress and impact health through biological and behavioral pathways. We examined eight outcomes: six child respiratory outcomes as well as parent and child general health, using data from 682 low-income, Chicago parents of diagnosed and undiagnosed asthmatic children. We created a continuous exposure, representing material, social and emotional dimensions of housing stressors, weighted by their parent-reported difficulty. We compared the 75th to the 25th quartile of exposure in adjusted binomial and negative binomial regression models. Higher risks and rates of poor health were associated with higher housing stressors for six of eight outcomes. The risk difference (RD) for poor/fair general health was larger for children [RD=6.28 (95% CI 1.22, 11.35)] than for parents [RD=3.88 (95% CI −1.87, 9.63)]. The incidence rate difference (IRD) for exercise intolerance was nearly one extra day per 2 weeks for the higher exposure group [IRD= 0.88 (95% CI 0.41, 1.35)]; nearly one-third extra day per 2 weeks for waking at night [IRD=0.32 (95% CI 0.01, 0.63)]; and nearly one-third extra day per 6 months for unplanned medical visits [IRD=0.30 (95% CI 0.059, 0.54)]. Results contribute to the conceptualization of urban stress as a "social pollutant" and to the hypothesized role of stress in health disparities. Interventions to improve asthma outcomes must address individuals' reactions to stress while we seek structural solutions to residential stressors and health inequities.

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“…For example, lower social status teens may perceive their lives as stressful due to chronic challenges they face at home and in their community, such as living in rundown, dilapidated neighborhoods, increased exposure to violence, lack of parental supervision due to parental employment demands such as shift work, and material deprivation [14,15]. Second, adolescents report that they smoke because "it relaxes or calms me" [16], and several studies have confirmed that higher levels of stress are associated with both increased risk of smoking initiation and current smoking among youth [17][18][19]. Thus, increases in perceived stress may explain why lower status teens are more likely to smoke.…”

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Social Status, Stress, and Adolescent Smoking

Finkelstein

Kubzansky

Goodman

2006

Journal of Adolescent Health

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Stressful life events, smoking behavior, and intentions to smoke among a multiethnic sample of sixth graders

Abstract: Results suggest that negative peer- and school-related events may lead to increased risk of smoking behavior and intentions to smoke among multicultural adolescents.

Cited by 45 publications

References 96 publications

Intrapersonal and Ecodevelopmental Factors Associated with Smoking in Hispanic Adolescents

Intrapersonal and Ecodevelopmental Factors Associated with Smoking in Hispanic Adolescents

Stress and the City: Housing Stressors are Associated with Respiratory Health among Low Socioeconomic Status Chicago Children

Social Status, Stress, and Adolescent Smoking

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