Association of Various Components of Media Literacy and Adolescent Smoking
Methods: Students at a public high school responded to cross-sectional survey items measuring smoking outcomes, components of media literacy, and other variables.
Results: Of the 1211 participants, 19 were current smokers (N = 216) and 40 of the nonsmokers (N 342) were susceptible to smoking. In the adjusted models, current smoking was most strongly related to representation-reality domain items, but susceptibility to smoking was associated with each of the media literacy domains.
Conclusion: Varied relationships exist between individual facets of media literacy and smoking outcomes.
Keywords: Media literacy; health education; health promotion; prevention; smoking
Document Type: Research Article
Affiliations: 1 Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine; Center for Research on Health Care; Division of Adolescent Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA.
Publication date: 01 March 2009
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