title: Predicting the urge to smoke in a population-based sample of adolescent smokers.
abstract: Little is known about the relationship between smoking urges and situations in adolescence, although adolescent smoking is specifically bound to characteristics, such as peer group situations. Therefore, we performed ordinal regression analyses to predict this situational urge to smoke by smoking-related variables. A sample of N = 1,093 adolescents in North-Eastern Germany was used in 2005/2006. High parameter values on all predictors had the highest odds for situational urge followed by moderate and low parameter values. Implications/limitations are described.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Epidemiology and Social Medicine, University of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany. deniz.tagmat@uni-greifswald.de
authors.forename: Deniz
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Tagmat
authors.forename: Judith
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Wolff
authors.forename: Jeannette
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Ruege
authors.forename: Ulrich
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: John
authors.forename: Jochen René
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: Thyrian
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D005544:Forecasting; D005858:Germany / Q000453:epidemiology; D006801:Humans; D016015:Logistic Models; D008297:Male; D009042:Motivation; D012054:Reinforcement, Psychology; D012907:Smoking / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000523:psychology*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires