Validity of Self-Reports of Adolescent Cigarette Smoking
- 1 January 1982
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in International Journal of the Addictions
- Vol. 17 (7) , 1131-1136
- https://doi.org/10.3109/10826088209056345
Abstract
Self-reports of cigarette-smoking behavior are typically used for estimating the number of smokers in a population, identifying the correlates of smoking behavior, and evaluating smoking cessation and prevention programs. The validity of self-reports by adolescents is frequently questioned but has received minimal empirical attention. Using air carbon monoxide as the criterion measure, self-reports of recency of cigarette smoking by ninth graders were found to be valid.This publication has 11 references indexed in Scilit:
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