ArticleJournal of studies on alcohol and drugs2019
Adolescent Tobacco Use and Misperceptions of Social Norms Across Schools in the United States.
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- Race and Ethnic Differences in the Protective Effect of Parental Educational Attainment on Subsequent Perceived Tobacco Norms among US Youth.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- Impact of social networks and norms on e-cigarette use among adolescents in Southern California: a prospective cohort study.BMJ public health · 2023Article
- Psychosocial Indicators of Adolescent Alcohol, Cigarette, and Marijuana Use: An Analysis of Normalized, Harmonized, and Pooled Data.Evaluation & the health professions · 2022Article
- Parent-child Communication, Social Norms, and the Development of Cyber Aggression in Early Adolescence.Journal of youth and adolescence · 2022Article
- Perceptions About Local ART Adherence Norms and Personal Adherence Behavior Among Adults Living with HIV in Rural Uganda.AIDS and behavior · 2022Article
- Perceived and misperceived norms about khat and/or cannabis use among adults in southwest Uganda.The International journal on drug policy · 2022Article
- Do emerging adults know what their friends are doing and does it really matter? Methodologic challenges and associations of perceived and actual friend behaviors with emerging adults' disordered eating and muscle building behaviors.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2021Article
- Tobacco Use Status and Temptation to Try E-Cigarettes among a Sample of Appalachian Youth.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Normative vs personal attitudes toward persons with HIV, and the mediating role of perceived HIV stigma in rural Uganda.Journal of global health · 2021Article
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Abstract
objectiveThis study assesses tobacco use norm misperceptions by distinguishing between perceived and actual peer norms for both tobacco use attitudes and behavior, and examines the association between perceived norms and personal use among U.S. students in Grades 6-12.
methodAnonymous self-report surveys were conducted with 28,070 students across 64 schools in 11 U.S. states between 1999 and 2017.
resultsAlthough 77% of students said tobacco use is never good, 64% of students thought that most students in their grade believed that use is acceptable. Similarly, although 79% of students reported never using tobacco, 85% of students perceived that most students in their grade typically use tobacco, with 66% thinking that peers use monthly or more often. Substantial norm misperception existed regardless of student and school factors, increasing by grade. Perceiving that most peers thought tobacco use is acceptable was highly predictive of personal attitude, and perceiving tobacco use as the norm among same-grade peers strongly predicted personal tobacco use, even after we adjusted for actual peer use prevalence and other factors. Males' perception of the male peer norm was a stronger predictor of personal use than was their perception of the female peer norm. Females' perceptions of sex-specific norms were associated with personal use, each at about the same magnitude.
conclusionsNorm misperceptions are pervasive across a diversity of students and schools, whereas perceptions of peer norms about tobacco use are highly associated with personal attitude and use. Results suggest that population-wide interventions correcting these misperceptions may help reduce tobacco use broadly among youth.
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