TY - JOUR
T1 - Adolescent Self-Organization and Adult Smoking and Drinking over Fifty Years of Follow-Up
T2 - The British 1946 Birth Cohort
AU - Nishida, Atsushi
AU - Cadar, Dorina
AU - Xu, Man K.
AU - Croudace, Timothy
AU - Jones, Peter B.
AU - Kuh, Diana
AU - Richards, Marcus
AU - MRC National Survey of Health and Development scientific and data collection team
N1 - The authors are grateful to the UK Wellcome Trust for financial support during the derivation of the self-organization variable; and to the UK Medical Research Council for support of the NSHD, including provision of funding for the most recent data collection.
PY - 2016/1/11
Y1 - 2016/1/11
N2 - Variations in markers of adolescent self-organization predict a range of economic and health-related outcomes in general population studies. Using a population-based birth cohort study we investigated associations between adolescent self-organization and two common factors over adulthood influencing health, smoking and alcohol consumption. The MRC National Survey of Health and Development (the British 1946 birth cohort) was used to test associations between a dimensional measure of adolescent self-organization derived from teacher ratings, and summary longitudinal measures of smoking and alcohol consumption over the ensuing five decades. Multinomial regression models were adjusted for sex, adolescent emotional and conduct problems, occupational social class of origin, childhood cognition, educational attainment and adult occupational social class. With all covariates adjusted, higher adolescent self-organization was associated with fewer smoking pack years, although not with quitting; there was no association with alcohol consumption across adulthood (none or heavy compared with light to moderate). Adolescent self-organization appears to be protective against smoking, but not against heavy alcohol consumption. Interpretation of this differential effect should be embedded in an understanding of the social and sociodemographic context in which these health behaviours occur over time.
AB - Variations in markers of adolescent self-organization predict a range of economic and health-related outcomes in general population studies. Using a population-based birth cohort study we investigated associations between adolescent self-organization and two common factors over adulthood influencing health, smoking and alcohol consumption. The MRC National Survey of Health and Development (the British 1946 birth cohort) was used to test associations between a dimensional measure of adolescent self-organization derived from teacher ratings, and summary longitudinal measures of smoking and alcohol consumption over the ensuing five decades. Multinomial regression models were adjusted for sex, adolescent emotional and conduct problems, occupational social class of origin, childhood cognition, educational attainment and adult occupational social class. With all covariates adjusted, higher adolescent self-organization was associated with fewer smoking pack years, although not with quitting; there was no association with alcohol consumption across adulthood (none or heavy compared with light to moderate). Adolescent self-organization appears to be protective against smoking, but not against heavy alcohol consumption. Interpretation of this differential effect should be embedded in an understanding of the social and sociodemographic context in which these health behaviours occur over time.
U2 - 10.1371/journal.pone.0146731
DO - 10.1371/journal.pone.0146731
M3 - Article
C2 - 26752724
SN - 1932-6203
VL - 11
JO - PLoS ONE
JF - PLoS ONE
M1 - e0146731
ER -