Causal effects of transitions to adult roles on early adult smoking and drinking: Evidence from three cohorts.

ABSTRACT: Transitions into work and family roles have become increasingly delayed as participation in tertiary education widens. Such transitions may have adverse or beneficial effects on health behaviours such as smoking and drinking (alcohol). Role socialisation effects may reduce smoking or drinking, but clustering of transitions may lead to role overload, weakening or reversing any role socialisation effects. Effects of transitions were examined in three UK cohorts: the 1958 National Child Development Study, the 1970 British Birth Cohort Study, and the West of Scotland: Twenty-07 Youth Cohort (from around Glasgow, growing up in the same time period as the 1970 cohort). Latent class analysis was employed to identify heterogeneous patterns of transition timing for leaving education, entering emplo

SUBMITTER: Green MJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5529289 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature