title: Depressive mood, the single-parent home, and adolescent cigarette smoking.
abstract: The association between depressive mood and cigarette smoking among adolescents was examined within a multivariate model. Subjects were 205 eleventh graders (123 boys and 82 girls) enrolled in a Northeast metropolitan public high school for science-oriented students. Logistic regression analysis showed an independent relation of depressive mood, friends' smoking behavior, and living in a single-parent home with cigarette smoking. Depression scores correlated with the number of cigarettes smoked. These associations suggest that depressive mood and stress may contribute to the onset of smoking.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032.
authors.forename: L S
authors.initials: LS
authors.lastname: Covey
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Tam
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior; D003863:Depression / Q000209:etiology*; D005190:Family; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007182:Income; D008297:Male; D015406:Single Parent; D012907:Smoking; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires