Invloed en selectieprocessen in vriendschappen en rookgedrag van adolescenten: Waarom ouders moeten stoppen met roken!

Abstract

Research on the impact of parental smoking on the development of smoking in their off-spring has primarily focused on the direct (modeling) effects of smoking behavior of parents. Still, parental smoking might also have indirect effects by affecting their off-spring susceptibility to peer pressure or by affecting peer selection processes. In the current study we used longitudinal data of early adolescents who were interviewed three times in a period of one year. Our findings showed that reciprocal best friend smoking status and parental smoking status affected onset of smoking in adolescents. We found no evidence for our assumption that adolescents with smoking parents are more susceptible to pressure to smoke by their friends. Further, adolescents with smoking parents were more likely to select a new friend who smoked as compared to adolescents without smoking parents, providing support for the idea that parents affect friendship selection processes.