title: The Association of Parental Self-Efficacy and Parent-Youth Connectedness With Youth Smoking Intentions.
abstract: Little attention has been paid to understanding how parents of differing race/ethnicity perceive their effectiveness in exercising anti-smoking parenting practices and how these behaviors affect youth's smoking intentions. We explored the association of parent-youth connectedness and parental self-efficacy and youths' smoking intentions in a group of African American and Caucasian never-smokers. Based on Social Bonding Theory and Social Learning Theory, a questionnaire was administered to nonsmoking, 9-16-year-old youth and parent dyads, assessing youth smoking intentions and parental measures of connectedness and self-efficacy. Youth risk factors for intending to smoke were increased parent-youth conflict and protective factors were increased parental monitoring, increased parental rule setting, and higher parental self-efficacy. Parent-youth connectedness and parental self-efficacy did not differ by parental smoking status or by race/ethnicity. Our findings underscore the importance of strong parenting practices and parental self-efficacy in protecting against youth intention to smoke and these may be important to target in future interventions.
authors: a Division of Emergency Medicine , Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, and University of Cincinnati College of Medicine , Cincinnati , Ohio , USA.
authors: E Melinda
authors: EM
authors: Mahabee-Gittens
authors: Bin
authors: B
authors: Huang
authors: Chen
authors: C
authors: Chen
authors: Lorah D
authors: LD
authors: Dorn
authors: Robert T
authors: RT
authors: Ammerman
authors: Judith S
authors: JS
authors: Gordon
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior; D001741:Black or African American; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D033182:Intention; D008297:Male; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D016487:Parenting / Q000523:psychology; D010290:Parents / Q000523:psychology*; D020377:Self Efficacy; D012907:Smoking / Q000208:ethnology* / Q000523:psychology*; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D044465:White People
keywords: adolescence; parenting; prevention; smoking