Racial, Ethnic and Gender Differences in Smoking Cessation Associated with Employment and Joblesness Through Young Adulthood in the US  

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Weden, Margaret M. ; Astone, Nan M. ; Bishai, David

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Social Science & Medicine (www.elsevier.com/locate/sosscimed) vol. 62 no. 2 (Jan. 2006), page 303-316.
Topik: GENDER; USA; gender inequality; racial and ethnic differences; labor force participation; smoking cessation

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Perpustakaan Pusat (Semanggi) Nomor Panggil: SS53.1 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada

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The dynamics of labor force participation and joblessness during young adulthood influence access to social and material resources and shape exposure to different sources of psychosocial strain. Differences in these dynamics by race, ethnicity and gender are related to changes in a behavioral determinant of poor health (tobacco use) for young adults aging into midlife. Using discrete time hazards models, we estimate the relationship between labor force participation in the past year and smoking cesation for US adults (aged 14 - 21 years in 1979( followed in a population representative sample until 1998 (i.e. the national longitudinal survey of youth). We assess the unique role of racial, ethnic and gender differences in exposure, vulnerability and reactivity to employment and joblessness by controlling for social and economic resources obtained through working and by controlling for early life factors that select individuals into certain labor force and smoking trajectories. There are tree main findings : 1. joblessness is more strongly associated with persistent daily smoking among women than among men 2. fewer social economic resources for women out of the labor force compared to employed women explain their lower cessation rates, and 3. lower cessation among unemployed women compared to employed women can only partially be explained by these resources. These findings illustrate how differential access to work related social and economic resources is an important mediator of poor health trajectories. Contextual factors such as social norms and psychosocial strains at work and at home may play a unique role among european american mena and women in explaining gender differences in smoking.

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