title: [Mental health indicators and their association with smoking in Guadalajara teenagers by sex].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  To associated mental health factors with tobacco-smoking in the last month in scholastic adolescents.
  
  
  METHODS
  An analytic transversal study with 1134 students in the first year of senior studies in a government preparatory school. Ten mental health factors were evaluated: self-esteem, impulsiveness, depressive symptoms, suicide ideation, disordered eating, recreation, locus of control, relationship with father, relationship with mother and stress.
  
  
  RESULTS
  We found mental health factors differences between men and women. In the risk analysis, the factors which associated with tobacco smoking in men were high self-esteem, impulsiveness, age and tobacco-smoking in friends. For the women suicide ideation, impulsiveness disordered eating, age and tobacco-smoking in friends and brothers. After the logistic regression were associated impulsiveness and tobacco-smoking in friends for both, high self-esteem and age for men, and tobacco-smoking in brothers for women.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Mental health factors are different for men and women. However, all of them are a reference that tobacco-smoking is associated with the inner world of teens that are meaning differently for men and women.
authors.affiliation: Unidad de Investigación Epidemiológica y en Servicios de Salud del Adolescente (UIESSA), Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social, Guadalajara, Jalisco, México. bertha.nuno@imss.gob.mx.
authors.forename: Bertha Lidia
authors.initials: BL
authors.lastname: Nuño-Gutiérrez
authors.forename: Alfredo
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Celis-de la Rosa
authors.forename: Olga Patricia
authors.initials: OP
authors.lastname: García-Pérez
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior / Q000523:psychology*; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D001068:Feeding and Eating Disorders / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006305:Health Status Indicators; D006306:Health Surveys; D006801:Humans; D016015:Logistic Models; D008297:Male; D008603:Mental Health; D008800:Mexico; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D010551:Personality; D011581:Psychological Tests; D000297:Psychology, Adolescent; D012737:Sex Factors; D012907:Smoking / Q000523:psychology*; D013315:Stress, Psychological; D059020:Suicidal Ideation
keywords: Adolescent; Mental health; Smoking