Smoking and adolescence : Exploring tobacco consumption and related attitudes in three different age groups in Switzerland
- Bosson, Marlène Université de Fribourg
- Maggiori, Christian Université de Fribourg
- Gygax, Pascal Université de Fribourg
- Gay, Christelle Université de Fribourg
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2012
English
The present study constitutes an investigation of tobacco consumption, related attitudes and individual differences in smoking or non-smoking behaviours in a sample of adolescents of different ages in the French-speaking part of Switzerland. We investigated three school-age groups (7th-grade, 9th-grade and the second-year of high school) for differences in attitude and social and cognitive dimensions. We present both descriptive and inferential statistics. On an inferential level, we present a binary logistic regression based model predicting risk of smoking. The resulting model most importantly suggests a strong relationship between smoking and alcohol consumption (both regular and sporadic). We interpret this result in terms of both the impact of the actual campaigns and the cognitive processes associated with adolescence.
- Faculty
- Faculté des lettres et des sciences humaines
- Department
- Département de Psychologie
- Language
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- English
- Classification
- Psychology
- License
- License undefined
- Identifiers
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- RERO DOC 208982
- Persistent URL
- https://folia.unifr.ch/unifr/documents/303250
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