English Language Use as a Risk Factor for Smoking Initiation Among Hispanic and Asian American Adolescents: Evidence for Mediation by Tobacco-Related Beliefs and Social Norms
Document Type
Article
Department
Community and Global Health (CGU)
Publication Date
2000
Disciplines
First and Second Language Acquisition | Mental and Social Health | Race and Ethnicity | Substance Abuse and Addiction
Abstract
In this study, we examined the association between English language usage (one of the indicators of acculturation) and smoking in a representative sample of adolescents in California. We hypothesized that (a) English language usage would be associated with increased risk of smoking among Hispanic and Asian American adolescents and (b) this association would be mediated by differences in smoking-related psychosocial variables, such as perceived access to cigarettes, perceived consequences of smoking, prevalence estimates of smoking among peers, friends' smoking, cigarette offers, and cigarette refusal self-efficacy.
Rights Information
© 2000 American Psychological Association
DOI
10.1037/0278-6133.19.5.403
Recommended Citation
Unger, J.B., Cruz, T.B., Rohrbach, L.A., Ribisl, K.M., Baezconde-Garbanati, L., Chen, X., Trinidad, D.R., & Johnson, C.A. English language use as a risk factor for smoking initiation among Hispanic and Asian American adolescents: Evidence for mediation by tobacco-related beliefs and social norms. Health Psychol, 19(5), 403-410, 2000.
