Stressful life events, smoking behavior, and intentions to smoke among a multiethnic sample of sixth graders

Ethnicity and Health

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 369-397

  Booker, Cara L ^a   Gallaher, Peggy ^b   Unger, Jennifer B ^b   Ritt Olson, Anamara ^b   Johnson, C Anderson ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Adolescent Smoking; Stressful Life Events

Indexed keywords

SMOKING;

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ADOLESCENCE; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; ASIAN; CAUCASIAN; CHILD; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEATH; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNOLOGY; FAMILY LIFE; FEMALE; GROUP PSYCHOLOGY; HEALTH; HIGH SCHOOL; HISPANIC; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; INJURY; INTENTION TO SMOKE; LIFE EVENT; MALE; MULTICULTURAL GROUP; MULTIETHNIC POPULATION; NEGATIVE PEER RELATED EVENT; NEGATIVE SCHOOL RELATED EVENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PARENTAL BEHAVIOR; PERSUASIVE COMMUNICATION; POSITIVE PERSONAL RELATED EVENT; PRIMARY SCHOOL; RISK; SCHOOL; SMOKING; STRESS; TASK PERFORMANCE; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; ADOLESCENT PSYCHOLOGY; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; LOGISTIC MODELS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; LOS ANGELES; MALE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 7544240184     PISSN: 13557858     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1355785042000285384     Document Type: Article

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