Acculturation as a risk factor for smoking among Asian American adolescents: Is the association confounded by nationality?

Journal of Ethnicity in Substance Abuse

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 65-79

  Unger, Jennifer B ^a   Trinidad, Dennis R ^b   Weiss, Jie Wu ^a   Rohrbach, Louise Ann ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Acculturation; Adolescence; Asian American; Smoking; Tobacco

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ASIAN AMERICAN; CHINESE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; IMMIGRATION; JAPAN; KOREA; LANGUAGE; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; VIET NAM;

EID: 4744357406     PISSN: 15332640     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J233v03n01_05     Document Type: Review

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