Close Friend and Group Influence on Adolescent Cigarette Smoking and Alcohol Use.

Urberg, Kathryn A.; Degirmencioglu, Serdar M.; Pilgrim, Colleen

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ERIC Number: EJ561712

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Publication Date: 1997

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Close Friend and Group Influence on Adolescent Cigarette Smoking and Alcohol Use.

Urberg, Kathryn A.; Degirmencioglu, Serdar M.; Pilgrim, Colleen

Developmental Psychology, v33 n5 p834-44 Sep 1997

Short-term longitudinal study compared influence of 6th, 8th, and 10th graders' closest friends (CF) and friendship groups (FG) on cigarette and alcohol use. Results showed that CF influenced initiation of cigarette and alcohol use. Only FG use predicted transition into current cigarette use. Only CF use predicted transition into current alcohol use. Both independently predicted adolescents' drinking to intoxication. (Author)

Descriptors: Adolescents, Age Differences, Drinking, Friendship, Group Dynamics, Longitudinal Studies, Peer Influence, Peer Relationship, Predictor Variables, Sex Differences, Smoking

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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