Скачать или смотреть Peer influences on adolescents’ intentions for future electronic nicotine delivery system use

Our results support prior findings linking more perceived ENDS use among peers and future ENDS use intentions. Additionally, we displayed that this relationship was partially explained by the impact of peer ENDS use on a teen’s attitudes towards ENDS.
 
Second, our results suggest that resistance to general peer influences may reduce the impact of peer use on ENDS attitudes. Thus, we suggest that increasing resistance to peer influence may be a viable intervention strategy to reduce ENDS use.
 
Finally, we observed that high schoolers higher on externalizing characteristics (but not high internalizing) may be particularly susceptible to social risk factors that increase use intentions. Thus, we suggest that prevention efforts addressing these social risk factors may provide the biggest impact among teens exhibiting these externalizing characteristics.