▪ Abstract Adolescent resilience research differs from risk research by focusing on the assets
and resources that enable some adolescents to overcome the negative effects of risk …

Substance use has long been associated with close relationship distress. Although the
direction of influence for this association has not been established, it has often been …

Cigarette smoking is a leading cause of mortality and morbidity and a particularly common
and intractable addictive disorder. Research shows that nicotine is a sine qua non of …

Intergenerational cultural dissonance (ICD)—a clash between parents and children over
cultural values—is a frequent issue for Asian American youth. Using longitudinal data from …

PURPOSE: To examine developmental patterns and family influences on the risk of daily
smoking initiation from adolescence to young adulthood. METHOD: A gender-balanced …

Few prospective studies of smoking initiation have investigated a wide range of time-varying
and invariant predictor variables at the individual and contextual levels concurrently. In this …

Over the past 20 years, resilience theory has attracted great attention from both researchers
and mental health practitioners. Resilience is defined as a process of overcoming the …

Objective To test whether parenting style and smoking-specific parenting practices
prospectively predicted adolescent smoking. Methods Three hundred eighty-two …

This Clinical Report was retired July 2017. Substance abuse remains a major public health
concern, and pediatricians are uniquely positioned to assist their patients and families with …

This study examined relations between different patterns of adolescent cigarette smoking
and discounting of monetary rewards due to delay (delay discounting) and probabilistic …