Discrimination, religious coping, and tobacco use among White, African American, and Mexican American vocational school students.
This study examined whether religious coping moderates the impact of racial/ethnic discrimination on current (past 30 day) cigarette and cigar/cigarillo use among a racially/ethnically diverse sample of 984 technical/vocational school students (47.1% women; mean age = 25 years). Results indicate that discrimination increased the likelihood of current cigarette use among African American students and current cigar/cigarillo use among white and African American students. Positive religious coping decreased the likelihood of cigarette and cigar/cigarillo smoking for white students only. Negative religious coping increased the likelihood of cigarette use for white students and cigar/cigarillo use for white and African American students. Two 2-way interactions indicate that positive and negative religious coping moderate the discrimination-cigarette smoking relationship for African American and Mexican American students, respectively.
Department of Kinesiology and Health Education, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USA. karissa@mail.utexas.edu
Karissa D
KD
Horton
Alexandra
A
Loukas
D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001741:Black or African American / Q000523:psychology*; D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D017058:Mexican Americans / Q000523:psychology*; D011287:Prejudice / Q000523:psychology*; D012069:Religion and Psychology; D012907:Smoking / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000208:ethnology* / Q000523:psychology*; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology*; D013781:Texas; D014829:Vocational Education; D044465:White People / Q000523:psychology*; D055815:Young Adult
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