Anti-tobacco socialization in homes of African-American and white parents, and smoking and nonsmoking parents
| Autor: | Sarah J Wirk, Pamela I. Clark, Shiva P. Gautam, Annemarie Scarisbrick-Hauser |
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| Rok vydání: | 1999 |
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Male Parents Adolescent Statistics as Topic Ethnic group Affect (psychology) White People Developmental psychology Humans Child Ohio African american Family Health White (horse) Parenting Social perception Socialization Smoking Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Focus Groups Focus group Health Surveys Self Efficacy Telephone survey Black or African American Psychiatry and Mental health Adolescent Behavior Case-Control Studies Pediatrics Perinatology and Child Health Female Psychology Attitude to Health |
| Zdroj: | The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine. 24(5) |
| ISSN: | 1054-139X |
| Popis: | To examine parental perceptions and behaviors with regard to teen smoking, comparing African-American and white parents, and those who did and did not smoke.Focus groups consisting of African-American and white parents who smoked provided initial in-depth information. A computer-assisted telephone survey of a biracial sample of 311 parents of children ages 8 to 17 years provided more generalizable information regarding parental beliefs and behaviors.Nearly 50% of households either allowed teen smoking, had no ground rules, or had set restrictive rules but never communicated them to the children. Compared to white parents, African-American parents felt more empowered to affect their children's behaviors and were more likely to actively participate in anti-tobacco socialization within the home (all p values0.01). Among the African-American parents, 98% reported 18 years or older to be an appropriate age for teens to make up their own minds about using tobacco, whereas 26% of white parents thought 16 years to be an appropriate age (p0.001). Parents who smoked reported more frequent rule-making than those who did not smoke (p = 0.02), but were more likely to believe that childhood tobacco use is inevitable (p = 0.01).Many parents are not engaged in antitobacco socialization in the home. Differences in the degree of parental participation may contribute to the variance in smoking prevalence between African-American and white children. |
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