We also find that social interaction impacts of the endogenous behaviors of siblings or a parent and an adult child are not statistically significant after disentangling them from homophily. In addition, we find that the effects of social contacts' cardiovascular disease shocks on individual smoking ...
Obesity Smoking German SOEP Social norm Household behaviour Self-control Background There is a mount of evidence confirming the negative impact of unhealthy behaviour in particular, smoking and being overweight. However, with the pattern of adverse health behaviour (HB) being varied among different soc...
Additionally, women with a greater proportion of friends (but not relatives) who smoked and more frequent exposure to environmental tobacco were more likely to smoke. Conclusions This work found differential impacts of the social network on smoking suggesting that understanding relationship type, not ...
In addition, adolescents initiating smoking early tend to continue their smoking with high probability.#The impacts of primary social factors are robust on adolescent smoking, particularly in the smoking continuation stage.doi:10.1007/s10389-020-01400-1Eunmee Lee...
Impacts of smoking on family budgets and family members’ attitudes toward smoking among the participant families may be different from those of families in less developed areas. Third, some individuals may not have been fully forthcoming in their responses, although the long-term fieldwork and ...
The addictive nature of social media may be the result of its “high availability,” say the researchers. In addition, with addictive substances such as alcohol and tobacco, there’s a clear message about the negative impacts on your health and wallet. That’s not as apparent with Facebook ...
Additionally, social support has been demonstrated to protect individuals against the adverse consequences of stressful events, thereby fostering positive impacts on well-being and cognition [9]. Despite the protective impact of social support on cognitive function, changes in life circumstances such as ...
In health research, network studies examine the direct impacts of networks on people’s behaviour, as well as the diffusion of ideas, diseases, and behaviours within these structures [3, 44]. Unlike in health research, social network studies are not very common in inequality research [16], ev...
impose administrative sanctions. The law reform did not result in a change in the use of illicit drugs, but it had other significant positive impacts such as a reduction in use by adolescents and the number of people with drug dependencies. It also resulted in a reduced incidence of HIV/...
2022). Wildfire smoke exposure has a range of impacts; from those that seem minor or nuisances such as upper respiratory, ear-nose-throat symptoms, or scratchy eyes to headaches, depression, anxiety, and impaired sleep to the most extreme outcomes previously described. The heterogeneity of ...