Unraveling the complexity of associations between tobacco culture in Chinese society and smokers' outcome expectancies: a network perspective.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Chinese unique sociocultural context surrounding tobacco reinforces smoking behaviors, potentially through its influence on smokers' expectancies of smoking-related outcomes. Network analysis effectively explores the intricate relationship between social tobacco cultural attitudes and smoking outcome expectancies among Chinese smokers.

Methods

The study included 1382 current smokers. A mixed graphical model was employed to construct internal and combined networks of social tobacco cultural attitudes and smoking outcome expectancies. Additionally, node strength centrality, edge weights, and stability were analyzed.

Results

In the network of social tobacco cultural attitudes, sharing cigarettes (jingyan or sanyan) was identified as the central node (Str = 0.8

SUBMITTER: Zhao Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12743513 | biostudies-literature | 2026 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature