The family plays a key part in both preventing and intervening with substance use and
misuse, both through inducing risk, and/or encouraging and promoting protection and …

This article reviews several classes of theories to elucidate the relationship between
adolescent cigarette smoking and friends' cigarette smoking. Perceived influence theories …

OBJECTIVES: Sexting (sending/receiving sexually explicit texts and images via cell phone)
may be associated with sexual health consequences among adolescents. However, to date …

We review findings from 27 prospective studies of the onset of cigarette smoking conducted
since 1980. Almost 300 measures of predictors of smoking onset were examined, and 74 …

Antismoking advertising is increasingly used, but its message content is controversial. In an
initial study in which adolescents coded 194 advertisements, the authors identified seven …

In the early twentieth century in the United States and other Western countries, women were
much less likely than men to smoke cigarettes, due in part to widespread social disapproval …

Previous research on the natural history of smoking has focused on overall group
trajectories without considering the possibility of risk subgroup variation. To address this …

Adolescents' reckless driving, drinking, and smoking, along with their cognitions about these
behaviors, were assessed in a 3-year longitudinal design. Consistent with most models of …

Three different constructs for measuring social influence were utilized in the present study to
explain adolescents' present and future smoking behavior at 6 (T2), 12 (T3), and 18 months …

Social influence is central to models of adolescent substance use. Nonetheless, researchers
fail to delineate the various forms of social influence. A framework that distinguishes …