Life course transitions in early adulthood and SES disparities in tobacco use
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A huge literature has documented adult socioeconomic disparities in smoking but says less about how these disparities emerge over the life course. Building on findings that smoking among adolescents differs only modestly by parental SES, we utilize a life course perspective on social differentiation to help explain the widening disparities in smoking in young adulthood. Our theory suggests that achieved socioeconomic status and the nature and timing of adult role transitions affect age-based trajectories of smoking and widen disparities in adult smoking. The analyses use data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, which follows a representative national sample over four waves from ages 11-17 in 1994/1995 to 26-34 in 2007/2008. The results show divergent age trajectories in smoking by parental education and that achieved socioeconomic status and life course roles in young adulthood account in good part for differences in the age trajectories. The findings demonstrate the value of the life course perspective in understanding processes of increasing stratification in health behavior and health during the transition to adulthood.
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Behaviors like smoking, alcohol use, drug use, and sexual activity become increasingly common during adolescence.
“Behaviors like smoking, alcohol use, drug use, and sexual activity become increasingly common during adolescence (Kwan et al., 2012; Pampel et al., 2014).”
From Health lifestyles across the transition to adulthood: implications for health (2017) · cites this paper as Pampel et al., 2014
These developmental stages are characterized by substantial changes in the prevalence and patterns of health behaviors.
“First, these developmental stages are characterized by substantial changes in the prevalence and patterns of health behaviors.”
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- Pampel FC 2008 The Racial Reversal in Cigarette Use: A Longitudinal Study from Ages 12–34 Journal of Health and Social Behavior 49 484 498 19181051 PMC3163096
- Authors
- Pampel, F. C., Mollborn, S., & Lawrence, E. M.
- Affiliations
- University of Colorado Boulder (US)
- Corresponding author
- Pampel, Fred C.
- Venue
- Social Science Research
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2014-01
- Volume
- 43
- Pages
- 45-59
- ISSN
- 0049-089X (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC3840392
- OpenAlex
- W1992776445
- Cited by
- 80
- References
- 77
- Citations by year
- 2025: 4 · 2024: 3 · 2023: 8 · 2022: 7 · 2021: 5 · 2020: 12 · 2019: 9 · 2018: 6 · 2017: 11 · 2016: 6 · 2015: 7 · 2014: 2
- FWCI
- 3.48
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Social Science Research (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (P01‐HD31921)
- National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (P01-HD31921)
- Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD R21 HD051146, P01- HD31921, P2CHD066613, R21HD051146, P01HD031921, R24HD066613)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Physiology › Smoking Behavior and Cessation
- Social Sciences › Health › Health disparities and outcomes
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies
- Keywords
- tobacco use, smoking disparities, socioeconomic status, life course transitions, early adulthood, parental education, social differentiation, age trajectories, coming of age, adolescent smoking
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent, Adult, Age Factors, Child, Educational Status, Female, Health, Humans, Longitudinal Studies, Male, Parents, Smoking, Social Class, Health Behavior, Health Status Disparities, Young Adult, Tobacco Use
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