Unger J B, Cruz T B, Rohrbach L A, Ribisl K M, Baezconde-Garbanati L, Chen X, Trinidad D R, Johnson C A
Department of Preventive Medicine, Institute for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Research, University of Southern California School of Medicine, Los Angeles 90033, USA.
Health Psychol. 2000 Sep;19(5):403-10. doi: 10.1037//0278-6133.19.5.403.
Acculturation increases the risk of smoking among Hispanic and Asian American adolescents, but the underlying mechanisms are not understood. This study examined associations between English language use and smoking among 4,167 Hispanic and 2,836 Asian American adolescents in California. Potential mediators were assessed, including access to cigarettes, perceived consequences, friends' smoking, cigarette offers, refusal self-efficacy, and prevalence estimates of peer smoking. English language use was associated with increased risk of lifetime smoking in both groups. This association became nonsignificant after access, perceived consequences, friends' smoking, and offers were controlled for. The acculturation process (as indicated by English language use) may be associated with smoking-related psychosocial variables, which may lead to an increased risk of experimentation with smoking.
文化适应增加了西班牙裔和亚裔美国青少年吸烟的风险，但其潜在机制尚不清楚。本研究调查了加利福尼亚州4167名西班牙裔青少年和2836名亚裔美国青少年中英语使用与吸烟之间的关联。评估了潜在的中介因素，包括获得香烟的机会、感知后果、朋友吸烟情况、他人提供香烟、拒绝自我效能感以及同伴吸烟的流行率估计。在两组中，英语使用都与终生吸烟风险增加有关。在控制了获得香烟的机会、感知后果、朋友吸烟情况和他人提供香烟等因素后，这种关联变得不显著。文化适应过程（以英语使用为指标）可能与吸烟相关的社会心理变量有关，这可能导致尝试吸烟的风险增加。
