title: Depressed mood and smoking experimentation among preteens.
abstract: The authors examined children's depressed mood, parental depressed mood, and parental smoking in relation to children's smoking susceptibility and experimentation over 20 months in a cohort of 418 preteens (ages 10-12 at baseline) and their parents. Depressed mood in preteens was strongly related to experimentation but not to susceptibility. In cross-sectional analyses parental depressed mood was related to children's experimentation, but in longitudinal analyses parental depressed mood at baseline did not differentiate children who experimented from those who did not. Although parental smoking was strongly related to experimentation, it was not related to susceptibility either cross-sectionally or longitudinally. Depressed mood among preteens and parents appeared to be more strongly related to children's smoking behaviors than to their intentions to smoke.
authors.affiliation: Center for Health Research, Kaiser Permanente Northwest, Portland, OR 97227-1110, USA. michael.polen@kpchr.org
authors.forename: Michael R
authors.initials: MR
authors.lastname: Polen
authors.forename: Susan J
authors.initials: SJ
authors.lastname: Curry
authors.forename: Louis C
authors.initials: LC
authors.lastname: Grothaus
authors.forename: Terry M
authors.initials: TM
authors.lastname: Bush
authors.forename: Jack F
authors.initials: JF
authors.lastname: Hollis
authors.forename: Evette J
authors.initials: EJ
authors.lastname: Ludman
authors.forename: Timothy A
authors.initials: TA
authors.lastname: McAfee
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002652:Child Behavior; D015331:Cohort Studies; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D003863:Depression / Q000453:epidemiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D033182:Intention; D008297:Male; D012907:Smoking / Q000453:epidemiology*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires