Department of Social Policy and Intervention and Nuffield College, University of Oxford, Nuffield College, New Road, Oxford OX1 1NF, UK; Department of Public Administration and Sociology, Erasmus School of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, Postbus 1738, 3000 DR Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
Centre for Social Investigation, Nuffield College, University of Oxford, New Road, Oxford OX1 1NF, UK.
Public Health. 2020 Apr;181:94-101. doi: 10.1016/j.puhe.2019.12.009. Epub 2020 Jan 22.
Intergenerational educational mobility can be particularly relevant for smoking because it implies moving from individuals' family background to a new position in the social hierarchy. Existing research, however, does not provide an answer as to how the process of mobility, per se, is associated with the likelihood of smoking.
We used cross-nationally comparable survey data for 20 countries collected within the health module of the European Social Survey in 2014. The analytical sample consisted of 22,336 respondents aged 25-64 years.
Smoking was operationalized by daily and occasional smoking, while the intergenerational educational mobility variable was derived from a comparison of respondents' and their parents' highest levels of educational attainment. We employed diagonal reference models to examine the association of intergenerational educational mobility and smoking.
In the country- and age-adjusted analysis, intergenerational downward mobility was associated with odds ratios of 1.34 (CI95 1.07, 1.68) and 1.61 (CI95 1.34, 1.93) for smoking, respectively, among men and women. Intergenerational upward mobility, on the other hand, was negatively associated with smoking but only among women.
Our findings provide new evidence that the process of intergenerational educational mobility is associated with individuals' likelihood of smoking and that this effect cannot be explained by conventional covariates of smoking.
代际教育流动对于吸烟问题可能特别重要，因为它意味着个体从家庭背景转移到社会阶层的新位置。然而，现有研究并没有回答代际流动本身与吸烟可能性之间的关联。
我们使用了 2014 年在欧洲社会调查健康模块中收集的来自 20 个国家的具有可比性的跨国调查数据。分析样本包括 22336 名 25-64 岁的受访者。
吸烟被定义为每天吸烟和偶尔吸烟，而代际教育流动变量则是通过比较受访者及其父母的最高教育程度得出的。我们采用对角线参考模型来检验代际教育流动与吸烟之间的关联。
在国家和年龄调整分析中，代际向下流动与男性和女性吸烟的优势比分别为 1.34（95%CI95 1.07，1.68）和 1.61（95%CI95 1.34，1.93）相关。另一方面，代际向上流动与吸烟呈负相关，但仅在女性中如此。
我们的研究结果提供了新的证据，表明代际教育流动的过程与个体吸烟的可能性有关，而且这种影响不能用吸烟的常规协变量来解释。
