TY - JOUR
T1 - "Deviance proneness" and adolescent smoking 1980 versus 2001
T2 - Has there been a "hardening" of adolescent smoking?
AU - Chassin, Laurie
AU - Presson, Clark
AU - Morgan-Lopez, Antonio
AU - Sherman, Steven J.
N1 - Funding Information:
This study was supported by grants HD13449 and DA13555 from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and the National Institute on Drug Abuse to Steven J. Sherman and by RTI's Behavioral Health and Criminal Justice Division to Antonio Morgan-Lopez. Thanks go to Jennifer Rose, Dan Hollinden, Emily Fairchild, Regina Harlig, and Alma Taubensee for help with data collection and data processing, and to the Monroe County School System and their students and families for their continuing support.
PY - 2007/5
Y1 - 2007/5
N2 - In a midwestern community sample, we tested for evidence of "hardening" of adolescent cigarette smoking between 1980 and 2001 by comparing adolescent smokers and nonsmokers at these two times on measures indicative of "deviance proneness" in Jessor and Jessor's [Jessor, R., & Jessor, S. L. (1977). Problem behavior and psychosocial development: A longitudinal study of youth. NY: Academic Press] problem behavior theory. Results produced support for some "hardening" of adolescent smoking, but this was largely confined to younger cohorts. Changing social norms that are reflected in a lowered prevalence of adolescent smoking may have restricted smoking behavior to a somewhat more "deviance prone" segment of the adolescent population. Results illustrate the potential utility of considering changes in the larger social and historical context when studying the development of adolescent risk behavior.
AB - In a midwestern community sample, we tested for evidence of "hardening" of adolescent cigarette smoking between 1980 and 2001 by comparing adolescent smokers and nonsmokers at these two times on measures indicative of "deviance proneness" in Jessor and Jessor's [Jessor, R., & Jessor, S. L. (1977). Problem behavior and psychosocial development: A longitudinal study of youth. NY: Academic Press] problem behavior theory. Results produced support for some "hardening" of adolescent smoking, but this was largely confined to younger cohorts. Changing social norms that are reflected in a lowered prevalence of adolescent smoking may have restricted smoking behavior to a somewhat more "deviance prone" segment of the adolescent population. Results illustrate the potential utility of considering changes in the larger social and historical context when studying the development of adolescent risk behavior.
KW - Adolescent cigarette smoking
KW - Deviance proneness
KW - Historical change
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U2 - 10.1016/j.appdev.2007.02.005
DO - 10.1016/j.appdev.2007.02.005
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:34247262522
SN - 0193-3973
VL - 28
SP - 264
EP - 276
JO - Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology
JF - Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology
IS - 3
ER -