Presentation
Are There Differences in the Smoking Identities of Adolescents Boys and Girls?
6th National Conference on Tobacco or Health
(2009)
Abstract
Purpose:
To assess sex-disaggregated differences in youth characterizations of their own smoking behaviour
Background:
•Smoking identities represent psychosocial constructions of how adolescents who smoke perceive themselves in relation to their smoking behaviour (e.g, ex-smoker, social smoker, occasional smoker, e.t.c.)
•These smoking identities converge (or diverge) with established taxonomies used to describe youth smoking behaviour
•Few quantitative studies have examined differences in smoking identity between boys and girls
Keywords
- Smoking,
- Smokin identities,
- Tobacco addiction
Disciplines
- Nursing and
- Public Health
Publication Date
November, 2009
Comments
A poster presentation at the 6th National Conference on Tobacco or Health, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Citation Information
Chizimuzo T.C. Okoli, Iris Torchalla, Pamela A. Ratner and Joy L. Johnson. "Are There Differences in the Smoking Identities of Adolescents Boys and Girls?" 6th National Conference on Tobacco or Health (2009) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/chizimuzo_okoli/111/