Understanding the Association Between Authoritative Parenting and Adolescent Smoking

摘要: Background: Research on adolescent cigarette smoking has attempted to measure the role of parents in preventing experimentation and uptake. However, aspects parental influence have often been limited behavior or antismoking socialization. Only a number studies considered hypothesis that parenting current may extend beyond socialization consider broader measures parent–child relationship, such as style. Methods: The sample was nationally representative included 17,287 high school students nationwide. Data were used categorize style—authoritative, permissive, autocratic, unengaged—experienced by each respondent. Logistic regression analysis assess association between style smoking. Results: Authoritative associated with reduction odds (OR: 0.74, 99% CI: 0.58, 0.95). When authoritative is simultaneously believing parents’ opinions about are important, no longer significant correlate smoking, while important 45% (99% 0.48, 0.64) more than three-fold increase 3.65, 2.87, 4.66) important. Discussion: Interventions want educate parenting, which includes importance having appropriate routine conversations their children, requiring chores, implementing general rules boundaries.