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Spijkerman, Renske; Van Den Eijnden, Regina J. J. M.; Engels, Rutger C. M. E. – Health Education & Behavior, 2007
Adolescents' perceptions of persons their age who smoke cigarettes (also known as prototypes of smoking peers) play a critical role in an adolescent's decision to start smoking. However, adolescents' perceptions of their peers who do not smoke (prototypes of nonsmoking peers) could be implicated in adolescents' smoking decisions as well. In the…
Descriptors: Smoking, Early Adolescents, Preadolescents, Grade 8