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Fujimoto, Kayo. "8. Gender Differences in Social Influence: Association between Participation in School-sponsored Sports Activities and Youth Smoking Experience" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Sheraton Boston and the Boston Marriott Copley Place, Boston, MA, Jul 31, 2008 <Not Available>. 2009-05-23 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p242178_index.html>

Fujimoto, K. , 2008-07-31 "8. Gender Differences in Social Influence: Association between Participation in School-sponsored Sports Activities and Youth Smoking Experience" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Sheraton Boston and the Boston Marriott Copley Place, Boston, MA Online <PDF>. 2009-05-23 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p242178_index.html

Publication Type: Poster Abstract: An increasing number of studies have shown that peer influence is the leading correlate of teenagers smoking and the cause of smoking initiation. There is limited understanding of the role of school-sponsored extra-curricular activities as an influence on the youth smoking experience among peers. This study examines the impact of the participation in school-sponsored sports activities on the variation in adolescent smoking uptake, and how gender differences influence this. Data was collected on smoking experience and friendship patterns from 2046 sixth-graders in 16 middle schools in southern California. Logistic regression was used to correlate frequency of membership in school-sponsored sports with smoking experience, controlling for demographic characteristics, network measurement of popularity and activity, prevalence on smoking in class, and clustering within class. Additionally, we ran a logistic regression analysis to correlate the frequency of membership in non-school sponsored sports with smoking experience, controlling for the identical variables. These two analyses were repeated for each gender. The results showed that students who participates more school-sponsored sports activities are more likely to experience smoking, but not for students who participate more non-school sports activities. There was a gender difference in such association, i.e., girls who participate more in school sports activities are more likely to �take a puff�, but boys are not. The implications for the study of adolescent smoking and prevention would be that there may be different social mechanism for girls and boys in their peer influence on the smoking experience through school-sponsored extra-curriculum activities.

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