OBJECTIVE: To test whether parenting style and smoking-specific parenting practices prospectively predicted adolescent smoking. METHODS: Three hundred eighty-two adolescents (age 10-17 years, initial nonsmokers, 98% non-Hispanic whites) and their parents were interviewed, with smoking also assessed 1-2 years later. RESULTS: Adolescents from disengaged families (low acceptance and low behavioral control) were most likely to initiate smoking. Adolescents' reports of parents' smoking-related discussion was related to lowered smoking risk for adolescents with nonsmoking parents, but unrelated to smoking onset for adolescents with smoking parents. Smoking-specific parenting practices did not account for the effects of general parenting styles. CONCLUSIONS: Both parenting style and smoking-specific parenting practices have unique effects on adolescent smoking, although effects were largely confined to adolescents' reports; and for smoking-specific parenting practices, effects were confined to families with nonsmoking parents. Interventions that focus only on smoking-specific parenting practices may be insufficient to deter adolescent smoking.
OBJECTIVE: To test whether parenting style and smoking-specific parenting practices prospectively predicted adolescent smoking. METHODS: Three hundred eighty-two adolescents (age 10-17 years, initial nonsmokers, 98% non-Hispanic whites) and their parents were interviewed, with smoking also assessed 1-2 years later. RESULTS: Adolescents from disengaged families (low acceptance and low behavioral control) were most likely to initiate smoking. Adolescents' reports of parents' smoking-related discussion was related to lowered smoking risk for adolescents with nonsmoking parents, but unrelated to smoking onset for adolescents with smoking parents. Smoking-specific parenting practices did not account for the effects of general parenting styles. CONCLUSIONS: Both parenting style and smoking-specific parenting practices have unique effects on adolescent smoking, although effects were largely confined to adolescents' reports; and for smoking-specific parenting practices, effects were confined to families with nonsmoking parents. Interventions that focus only on smoking-specific parenting practices may be insufficient to deter adolescent smoking.
Authors: Susan T Ennett; Vangie A Foshee; Karl E Bauman; Andrea Hussong; Robert Faris; John R Hipp; Li Cai Journal: Nicotine Tob Res Date: 2010-08-05 Impact factor: 4.244
Authors: Michael Windle; Nancy Brener; Paula Cuccaro; Patricia Dittus; David E Kanouse; Nancy Murray; Jan Wallander; Mark A Schuster Journal: J Youth Adolesc Date: 2009-05-12
Authors: Lauren S Wakschlag; Aaron Metzger; Anne Darfler; Joyce Ho; Robin Mermelstein; Paul J Rathouz Journal: Nicotine Tob Res Date: 2010-12-23 Impact factor: 4.244
Authors: Stephen E Gilman; Richard Rende; Julie Boergers; David B Abrams; Stephen L Buka; Melissa A Clark; Suzanne M Colby; Brian Hitsman; Alessandra N Kazura; Lewis P Lipsitt; Elizabeth E Lloyd-Richardson; Michelle L Rogers; Cassandra A Stanton; Laura R Stroud; Raymond S Niaura Journal: Pediatrics Date: 2009-02 Impact factor: 7.124