Adolescent Socioeconomic and School-Based Social Status, Smoking, and Drinking.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Relationships between subjective social status (SSS) and health-risk behaviors have received less attention than those between SSS and health. Inconsistent associations between school-based SSS and smoking or drinking might be because it is a single measure reflecting several status dimensions. We investigated how adolescent smoking and drinking are associated with "objective" socioeconomic status (SES), subjective SES, and three dimensions of school-based SSS.

Methods

Scottish 13-15 years-olds (N = 2,503) completed questionnaires in school-based surveys, providing information on: "objective" SES (residential deprivation, family affluence); subjective SES (MacArthur Scale youth version); and three school-based SSS dimensions ("SSS-peer", "SSS-scholastic" and "SSS-spo

SUBMITTER: Sweeting H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4510202 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature