Are There Differences in the Smoking Identities of Adolescents Boys and Girls?

Abstract

Purpose: To assess sex-disaggregated differences in youth characterizations of their own smoking behaviour Background: •Smoking identities represent psychosocial constructions of how adolescents who smoke perceive themselves in relation to their smoking behaviour (e.g, ex-smoker, social smoker, occasional smoker, e.t.c.) •These smoking identities converge (or diverge) with established taxonomies used to describe youth smoking behaviour •Few quantitative studies have examined differences in smoking identity between boys and girl