Racial, ethnic, and gender differences in smoking cessation associated with employment and joblessness through young adulthood in the US

• Published in: Social science & medicine (1982) Vol. 62; no. 2; pp. 303 - 316
• Main Authors: Weden, Margaret M, Astone, Nan M, Bishai, David
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Elsevier Ltd 2006; Elsevier; Pergamon Press Inc
• Series: Social Science & Medicine
• Subjects: Adolescent; Adult; Biological and medical sciences; Cessation; Delivery. Postpartum. Lactation; Employment; Employment - psychology; Ethnic Groups; Ethnicity; Family; Female; Gender; Gender differences; Gender inequality; Gynecology. Andrology. Obstetrics; Health; Health Behavior; Humans; Labor Force Participation; Labour; Longitudinal Studies; Male; Medical sciences; Medicine; Miscellaneous; Proportional Hazards Models; Public health. Hygiene; Public health. Hygiene-occupational medicine; Race; Racial and ethnic differences; Racial Differences; Risk-Taking; Sex Differences; Sex Factors; Smoking; Smoking cessation; Smoking Cessation - ethnology; Social sciences; Socioeconomic Factors; Stress, Psychological; Surveys and Questionnaires; Tobacco, tobacco smoking; Toxicology; U.S.A; Unemployment; Unemployment - psychology; United States - epidemiology; United States of America; USA; USA Gender inequality Racial and ethnic differences Labor force participation Smoking cessation; Young Adults; United States; North America; America; United States > US; Labor force participation; Smoking cessation; USA; Gender inequality; Racial and ethnic differences; Human; Participation; Poison withdrawal; Health; Sex; Tobacco smoking; Unemployment; Epidemiology; Ethnic group; Social status; Tobacco; Shutdown; Employment; Young adult; Race; Comparative study; Inequality

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 deter...