OBJECTIVE To extend the analysis of psychosocial risk factors for smoking presented in the
United States surgeon general's 1994 report on smoking and health, and to propose a …

Longitudinal research studies focused on alcohol use initiation in adolescence were
reviewed to determine which variables function as antecedent predictors or risk factors. Only …

The author's goal of presenting a fresh conception of young people's development has
resulted in chapters on topics not as strongly represented in most other textbooks. Most …

Four studies examined the relation between college students' own attitudes toward alcohol
use and their estimates of the attitudes of their peers. All studies found widespread evidence …

This paper examines the role of parenting behaviors in influencing children's Internet
addiction and the consequences of children's Internet addiction on parents' job outcomes …

Adolescents may be influenced both by their friends' behaviors and by the features of their
friendships. To examine both types of influence, seventh and eighth graders (N= 297) were …

OBJECTIVES: Sexting (sending/receiving sexually explicit texts and images via cell phone)
may be associated with sexual health consequences among adolescents. However, to date …

This study investigated the influences of peer and parent variables on alcohol use and
problems in a sample of late adolescents in the summer immediately prior to entry into …

IT iS APPROPRiATE that in writing a book about how communities affect us, I have been
supported by many people in different, but often overlap**, communities. This book began …

Publisher Summary Pluralistic ignorance begins with a discrepancy between public actions
and private sentiments, typically produced by widespread behavioral adherence to a social …