Perceived parental reactions to substance use among adolescent vapers compared with tobacco smokers and non-users in Iceland

• Main Authors: Kristjansson, Alfgeir L., Allegrante, John P., Sigfusdottir, Inga Dora
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Columbia University 2018
• Subjects: Teenagers > Substance use; Teenagers > Substance use > Psychological aspects; Parent and child; Vaping; Smoking; Iceland
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/d8-1dwk-5d16; https://academiccommons.columbia.edu/doi/10.7916/d8-1dwk-5d16

OBJECTIVES: The objective is to assess perceived parental reactions to cigarette smoking, vaping, drunkenness, and marijuana use among cigarette smokers, vapers, and those who neither smoke nor vape (non-users). STUDY DESIGN: It is a population-based, cross-sectional, school survey with all accessible 13- to 16-year-old students in Iceland (response rate: 84.1%). METHODS: Data were analyzed in Mplus using multinomial logistic regression for categorical data with maximum likelihood and robust standard errors, adjusting for potential school clustering. RESULTS: Across all four outcome categories and controlling for background factors, non-users were more likely than vapers and smokers to perceive their parental reactions to substance use as negative (P < 0.01). Vapers were significantly more likely than smokers to perceive their parental reactions as negative toward all types of substance use (P < 0.01). CONCLUSIONS: Adolescent smokers, vapers, and non-users appear to form a sequential risk gradient toward perceived parental reactions to substance use, with smokers being least likely to perceive their parental reactions as negative and vapers thereafter; non-users are most likely to perceive their parental reactions toward substance use as negative.