Communication about smoking in Dutch families: associations between anti-smoking socialization and adolescent smoking-related cognitions

Parents play an important role in the development of young people’s smoking behavior, through the modeling effects of their own smoking status, through the ways they raise their children and through the ways they deal with smoking at home. The present study focused on anti‐smoking socialization by, first, comparing the perspectives of both parents and an adolescent on eight indicators of anti‐smoking socialization. In addition, we aimed to examine how these indicators of anti‐smoking socialization are related to adolescent smoking‐related cognitions (e.g. attitudes, self‐efficacy, intentions t... Mehr ...