ArticleAddictive behaviors2015
Characteristics of emerging adulthood and e-cigarette use: Findings from a pilot study.
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15 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
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- Exposure to tobacco marketing in bars predicts subsequent use of multiple tobacco products among non-tobacco-using college students.Tobacco control · 2020Article
- Dual users of e-cigarettes and cigarettes have greater positive smoking expectancies than regular smokers: a study of smoking expectancies among college students.Journal of American college health : J of ACH · 2020Article
- Electronic cigarette use among university students aged 18-24 years in New Zealand: results of a 2018 national cross-sectional survey.BMJ open · 2020Article
- Research on Youth and Young Adult Tobacco Use, 2013-2018, From the Food and Drug Administration-National Institutes of Health Tobacco Centers of Regulatory Science.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2020Review
- "They're thinking, well it's not as bad, I probably won't get addicted to that. But it's still got the nicotine in it, so…": Maturity, Control, and Socializing: Negotiating Identities in Relation to Smoking and Vaping-A Qualitative Study of Young Adults in Scotland.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2019Article
- The Revised Inventory of the Dimensions of Emerging Adulthood (IDEA-R) and Substance Use Among College Students.Evaluation & the health professions · 2017Article
- Cultural buffering as a protective factor against electronic cigarette use among Hispanic emergency department patients.Addictive behaviors · 2016Article
- Associations with E-cigarette use among Asian American and Pacific Islander young adults in California.Preventive medicine reports · 2016Article
- Emerging adulthood themes and hookah use among college students in Southern California.Addictive behaviors · 2016Article
- Role transitions and substance use among Hispanic emerging adults: A longitudinal study using coarsened exact matching.Addictive behaviors · 2016Article
- Patterns of electronic cigarette use in current and ever users among college students in France: a cross-sectional study.BMJ open · 2016Article
- DECOY: Documenting Experiences with Cigarettes and Other Tobacco in Young Adults.American journal of health behavior · 2016Article
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Abstract
introductionEmerging adults (ages 18 to 25) are more likely to use e-cigarettes compared to other age groups, but little is known about their risk and protective factors. A next step to understanding e-cigarette use among emerging adults may involve examining how transition-to-adulthood themes are associated with e-cigarette use. It may also be important to know which specific transitions, and how the accumulated number of role transitions experienced in emerging adulthood, are associated with e-cigarette use.
methodsEmerging adults completed surveys indicating their identification with transition-to-adulthood themes, role transitions in the past year, and e-cigarette use. Logistic regression models examined the associations between transition-to-adulthood themes and e-cigarette use. Separate logistic regression models explored the association between individual role transitions, as well as the accumulated number of role transitions experienced, and e-cigarette use, controlling for age, gender, and ethnicity.
resultsAmong the participants (n = 555), 21% were male, the average age was 22, 45% reported lifetime, and 12% reported past-month, e-cigarette use. Participants who felt emerging adulthood was a time of experimentation/possibility were more likely to report e-cigarette use. Several role transitions were found to be associated with e-cigarette use such as loss of a job, dating someone new, and experiencing a breakup. The relationship between the accumulated number of role transitions and e-cigarette use was curvilinear.
conclusionFindings from this pilot study can be a point of departure for future studies looking to understand the risk and protective factors of e-cigarettes among emerging adults.
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