Do popular students smoke? The association between popularity and smoking among middle school students

Journal of Adolescent Health

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 323-329

  Valente, Thomas W ^a   Unger, Jennifer B ^a   Johnson, C Anderson ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Peer influence; Popularity; Smoking; Tobacco

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BOY; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FRIENDSHIP; GENDER; HEALTH SURVEY; HIGH SCHOOL; HUMAN; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; POPULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SMOKING; STUDENT; STUDY; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; CALIFORNIA; CHILD; DATA COLLECTION; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; FRIENDS; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; PEER GROUP; SMOKING;

EID: 25144460467     PISSN: 1054139X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jadohealth.2004.10.016     Document Type: Article

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