Prototype perception and smoking: Are negative or positive social images more important in adolescence?

Addictive Behaviors

Volumn 32, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1728-1732

  Piko, Bettina F ^a   Bak, Judit ^a,b   Gibbons, Frederick X ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED   (Hungary)

^b SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^c IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescence; Prototypes; Smoking; Social images

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENCE; ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT SMOKING; ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HIGH SCHOOL; HUMAN; MALE; PEER PRESSURE; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF CONCEPT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMOKING; SMOKING HABIT; SOCIAL ASPECT;

ADOLESCENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR; MALE; ROLE; SELF CONCEPT; SMOKING; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION; SOCIAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 34248643739     PISSN: 03064603     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.addbeh.2006.12.003     Document Type: Article

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