TY - JOUR
T1 - Maternal Influence on Tobacco Use among Black Adolescent Boys
AU - Amutah-Onukagha, Ndidiamaka
AU - Omotola, Ayomide
AU - Sullivan, Kathrine S.
AU - Hutchinson, M. Katherine
AU - Jemmott, John B.
AU - Jemmott, Loretta S.
AU - Cederbaum, Julie A.
N1 - Funding Information:
These analyses were supported by a grant from National Institute on Drug Abuse (R03 DA029707-01A1, Multi-PIs: J.A.C. & M.K.H.). The original intervention study was supported by a grant from National Institute of Mental Health (R01 MH55742, PI: L.S.J.).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - Parents play an important role in delaying adolescent tobacco use, particularly through role modeling, parent-child relationships, and monitoring. Although these intrafamilial processes are relatively well documented, few studies have examined them among urban, Black mother-son dyads. Using data from 526 mothers and their adolescent sons living in public housing communities, this secondary longitudinal data analysis examined how parenting influenced adolescent boys’ tobacco use. Although mother-son closeness and maternal intention to communicate to sons about not smoking reduced the risk of tobacco use among Black adolescent boys, maternal role-modeling, particularly past 30-day use, emerged as the most significant predictor of tobacco use. Research findings highlight the need to shift from individual-level interventions toward strategies designed to change family system-level behaviors.
AB - Parents play an important role in delaying adolescent tobacco use, particularly through role modeling, parent-child relationships, and monitoring. Although these intrafamilial processes are relatively well documented, few studies have examined them among urban, Black mother-son dyads. Using data from 526 mothers and their adolescent sons living in public housing communities, this secondary longitudinal data analysis examined how parenting influenced adolescent boys’ tobacco use. Although mother-son closeness and maternal intention to communicate to sons about not smoking reduced the risk of tobacco use among Black adolescent boys, maternal role-modeling, particularly past 30-day use, emerged as the most significant predictor of tobacco use. Research findings highlight the need to shift from individual-level interventions toward strategies designed to change family system-level behaviors.
KW - Adolescent
KW - Monitoring
KW - Mother-son dyad
KW - Role modeling
KW - Substance use
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U2 - 10.1007/s10826-022-02505-9
DO - 10.1007/s10826-022-02505-9
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85146081013
SN - 1062-1024
JO - Journal of Child and Family Studies
JF - Journal of Child and Family Studies
ER -