Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06519, United States.
Addict Behav. 2012 Feb;37(2):211-6. doi: 10.1016/j.addbeh.2011.10.013. Epub 2011 Oct 25.
We examined the association of parental disapproval of adolescent smoking and parental smoking status, with past smoking quit behaviors among daily-smoking, high school-aged adolescents, and also tested whether these associations differ for boys and girls. Adolescent regular smokers (N=253) completed questions on smoking behaviors, past smoking cessation behaviors, parental disapproval of smoking, and parental smoking. Past smoking cessation behaviors were defined as "the number of quit attempts that lasted longer than 24 hours" and "the longest number of days of abstinence". Logistic regression analyses showed that for all adolescents, even having one smoking parent was associated with decreased odds of being abstinent for longer than 2 days. However, for girls, not having any smoking parents was associated with greater duration of abstinence (>2 weeks). Having both parents, compared with not having any parents disapprove of smoking, was associated with greater number of quit attempts in boys, but this effect was not found in girls. The results indicate that parents have a salient role in adolescent smoking cessation behaviors, and this association appears to be gender-specific. However, further research is needed to understand the mechanisms that explain gender differences in parental influence on adolescent smoking cessation behaviors.
我们考察了父母对青少年吸烟的反对和父母吸烟状况与每日吸烟的高中青少年过去的戒烟行为之间的关联，并检验了这些关联在男孩和女孩之间是否存在差异。青少年经常吸烟者（N=253）完成了关于吸烟行为、过去戒烟行为、父母对吸烟的反对以及父母吸烟的问题。过去的戒烟行为定义为“持续超过 24 小时的戒烟尝试次数”和“最长的禁欲天数”。逻辑回归分析表明，对于所有青少年来说，即使只有一位吸烟的父母，也会降低连续两天以上不吸烟的几率。然而，对于女孩来说，没有任何吸烟的父母会与更长的禁欲时间（>2 周）相关。与没有任何父母反对吸烟相比，父母双方都不反对吸烟，与男孩戒烟尝试次数增加有关，但在女孩中没有发现这种效果。研究结果表明，父母在青少年戒烟行为中起着重要作用，这种关联似乎具有性别特异性。然而，需要进一步的研究来理解解释父母对青少年戒烟行为影响的性别差异的机制。
