After-school supervision and adolescent cigarette smoking: Contributions of the setting and intensity of after-school self-care

This paper looks at the independent contributions of the setting and the in tensity of after-school self-care to the cigarette smoking behaviors of 235 2 ninth graders. We controlled for a variety of correlates of adolescent ci garette smoking that have not been accounted for in existing research. Resu lts indicated that the intensity of the self-care experience was significan tly associated with adolescent smoking behavior irrespective of the typical setting of the adolescents' after-school activities. Our findings also ind icated that a nonpermissive parenting style, family rule-setting about ciga rettes, and especially, in absentia parental monitoring may reduce the like lihood of cigarette smoking among latchkey and nonlatchkey adolescents alik e. However latchkey youth were not any more sensitive to these aspects of p arenting than other adolescents. This is consistent with the notion that ta rgeting these aspects of the horne lives of all adolescents has the potenti al to reduce smoking behaviors among latchkey as well as nonlatchkey childr en.