Social Contexts and Patterns of Young Adult Smoking

这项研究扩展了对参加新英格兰家庭研究(Nef)的G2父母的765名青少年后代(G3)的初步评估。作为TTURC-1的一部分，这项研究将利用从父母和子女那里收集的独特和广泛的个人和家庭数据。研究建议分两次进行后续评估，以继续收集个人层面的数据，并扩大国家环境评估研究的跨学科重点，以包括有关社会背景的信息。这将在三个时间内提供信息 旨在前瞻性地研究邻里因素(例如，SES)对吸烟进展以及酒精和其他药物联合使用(ATOD)的影响的中介和调节因素。主要目标包括：a)。检查吸烟进展和ATOD的邻里劣势指数；调查吸烟途径作为邻里因素与吸烟进展和ATOD之间关系的中介变量；去调查 家庭因素是邻里属性与吸烟进展和ATOD之间关系的调节因素。还将进行一些探索性的分析，以检查，例如，作为主持人的易感性的个体差异(例如，精神病理学)。这项研究带来了TD视角，以增加对社区、社会背景、家庭和个人差异以及吸烟和ATOD进展等先前不同领域之间关系的机制的理解。这为来自不同背景的科学家在TD团队中扩展经验提供了一个独特的机会 努力更好地了解背景、家庭和个人层面之间的相互关系。这是建立在最近令人兴奋的研究基础上的，该研究表明，吸烟进展的一些关键决定因素包括社区背景。

This study extends an initial assessment of 765 adolescent offspring (G3s) of the G2 parents enrolled in the New England Family Study (NEFS). The study will capitalize on the unique and extensive individual and family data being collected from both parents and offspring as part of the TTURC-1. The study proposes to conduct follow-up assessments on two occasions to continue to collect individual level data and expands the transdisciplinary (TD) focus of the NEFS study to include information on social contexts. This will provide information at three time points to examine prospectively the mediators and moderators of the effects of neighborhood factors (e.g. SES) on smoking progression and on combined alcohol and other drug use (ATOD). Primary aims include: a). to examine indices of neighborhood disadvantage on smoking progression and ATOD; b). to investigate tobacco access as a mediator of the relationship between neighborhood factor and smoking progression and ATOD; c). to investigate family factors as moderators of the relationship between neighborhood attributes and smoking progression and ATOD. Several exploratory, analyses will also be conducted to examine, for example, individual differences in susceptibility, (e.g., psychopathology) as moderators. This study brings a TD perspective to increase the understanding of the mechanisms underlying the relationships among previously disparate domains of neighborhood, social context, family, and individual differences and the progression of smoking and ATOD. This provides a unique opportunity to expand the experiences of scientists from different backgounds in a TD team effort to better understand interrelationships among contextual, family and individual level. This builds on exciting recent work that suggests that some of the key determinants of smoking progression include community contexts.