The relation between smoking-specific parenting and smoking trajectories of adolescents: how are changes in parenting related to changes in smoking?
In this study, we tested to what extent smoking-specific parenting and changes in parenting are related to adolescents' smoking trajectories. Data were used from a four-wave prospective study including 428 adolescents (aged M = 15.2; SD = 0.60). Latent Class Growth Analyses were conducted to identify trajectories. Multinomial Logistic Regression Analyses were executed to examine the relations between parenting and class membership. Longitudinal cross-lagged models were tested to examine causal predominance between parenting and smoking. Four trajectories were found, consisting of Non-smokers, Increasers, Stable smokers and Decreasers. Quality of parental smoking-specific communication was strongly related to the membership in different trajectories. Along with the cross-lagged associations demonstrating that the quality of communication was predominantly related to future smoking rather than vice versa, these findings indicate that parents who talked about smoking in a constructive and respectful manner were more likely to have non-smoking children. In contrast, parents who talked often about smoking-related issues and increased these discussions over time were more likely to have smoking children; cross-lagged associations indicated that these findings could be best explained by children changing their parents. Having a non-smoking agreement was related to a lower risk in becoming a regular smoker.
de Leeuw
Rebecca
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Behavioural Science Institute, Nijmegen 6525 HR, The Netherlands. r.deleeuw@bsi.ru.nl
Scholte
Ron
R
Vermulst
Ad
A
Engels
Rutger
R
D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D016015:Logistic Models; D008297:Male; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D009426:Netherlands / Q000453:epidemiology; D016487:Parenting; D011446:Prospective Studies; D012907:Smoking / Q000453:epidemiology