title: Sociocultural correlates of cigarette smoking among African-American men versus women: Implications for culturally specific cessation interventions.
abstract: Low socioeconomic status, racial discrimination, and low acculturation are the major sociocultural correlates of smoking among African-American adults. This study is the first to examine all three variables simultaneously and to analyze gender differences in their association with smoking. Results for the sample revealed that low education and low acculturation predicted smoking but racial discrimination did not. For women, low acculturation was the sole predictor of smoking, whereas for men, socioeconomic status variables were the sole predictors. This suggests that low acculturation may be associated with smoking among African-American women only. Hence, culturally specific smoking cessation programs designed for low-acculturated African-Americans might be effective for African-American women alone.
authors.affiliation: Irma Corral, Brody School of Medicine, East Carolina University, USA landrineh@ecu.edu.
authors.forename: Hope
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Landrine
authors.affiliation: Irma Corral, Brody School of Medicine, East Carolina University, USA.
authors.forename: Irma
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Corral
mesh_terms: D000069:Acculturation; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001741:Black or African American / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D002140:California; D000073865:Cigarette Smoking / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000208:ethnology; D065246:Culturally Competent Care / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D063505:Racism / Q000208:ethnology / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D012737:Sex Factors; D016540:Smoking Cessation / Q000208:ethnology* / Q000379:methods*; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D014481:United States; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: African-Americans; acculturation; cigarette smoking; gender; racial discrimination