| Description |
1 online resource (230 pages) |
| Series |
Adolescence and Society |
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Adolescence and society.
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| Contents |
Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 'Problem behaviour', sensation seeking and the concept of risk; 2 Studying adolescent smoking; 3 Two empirical studies of adolescent smoking; 4 The social environment: families, relationships and smoking; 5 Social environments: parenting, peers and school culture; 6 Smoking and mood: the control of stress, the pursuit of pleasure and concerns about the body; 7 Smoking and image formation; 8 Social identities of adolescent smokers; 9 Interventions; 10 Breaking the mould; References |
| Summary |
What factors influence adolescents to take up smoking? Why do more girls smoke than boys? In contrast to medical orthodoxy, Smoking in Adolescence looks at smoking from the adolescents' own points of view. What emerges is that regular smokers are seen as fun-loving and nonconformist; cigarettes are a passport to a fashionable, popular and 'hard' identity. Young people create, and are influenced by, complex images of smokers and nonsmokers. Barbara Lloyd and Kevin Lucas explore the psychological dimensions such as social environment, family, peers, stress and coping, body image, mo |
| Notes |
Includes index |
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Print version record |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Lucas, Kevin
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| ISBN |
9781317724971 |
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1317724976 |
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