LITERATURE REVIEW #1
1. Visual
2. Citation:
Wallace, Lacey N., and Michael J. Roche.
“Vaping in Context: Links Among E-Cigarette Use, Social Status, and Peer
Influence for College Students.” Journal of Drug Education, vol.
48, no. 1–2, Mar. 2018, pp. 36–53, doi:10.1177/0047237918807706.
3. Summary:
This article discusses study which focused on how popularity in
college relates to e-cigarette use and the perception about the social
consequences that are affiliated. In 2016, data was collected in an online
survey from 175 college students. It was shown in the study that there was a
positive correlation between having friends that use e-cigarettes and the
likelihood of accepting the e-cigarette offer later in the future. Also, the
overall use of e-cigarettes was positively correlated if you had friends that
use them. The perception of social impact was related to how often an
individual used the e-cigarettes. Lastly, the study showed that individuals who
had friends that used e-cigarettes saw that their social life with positively
correlated with the use.
4. Author:
Lacey N.Wallace is an Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice at
Penn State Altoona. Her research focuses on juvenile delinquency and substance
use. It also includes how family and peers affect these behaviors.
Michael J. Roche is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Penn
State Altoona. He has work on interpersonal problems, psychological disorder,
and drug use. His research focuses heavily on college students
5. Key
terms:
e-cigarettes- electronic
device that mimics tobacco smoking
college students-population that we are focusing on for research
social status-an individual’s importance level in relation to
others
6. Quotes:
“Among high school and college students specifically, recent
studies report ever use of e-cigarettes to range between 45% and 49%, and past
30-day use of e-cigarettes to range from 10% to 24% (Abadi, Couch, Chaffee,
& Walsh, 2017; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2016;
Littlefield, Gottlieb, Cohen, & Trotter, 2015; Sawdey, Hancock, Messner,
& Prom-Wormley, 2017)”(Roche, 37).
“In other words, individuals use their understanding of a behavior
to assess the degree to which it is worthwhile to participate. Perceptions of
the importance of conforming to peer expectations are part of this utility
calculation (Hoffman, Sussman, Unger, & Valente, 2006)”(Roche, 37).
“Interestingly, perceived social impact was unrelated to
likelihood of having ever tried an e-cigarette or to past offers of
e-cigarettes from peers. Perceptions seemed more related to beliefs about
future use than patterns in past use. One possible explanation is that actual
and hypothetical behavior does not always match (Loomis, Bell, Cooney, &
Asmus, 2009)”(Roche,48).
7. Value:
This material is vital to my research because it explores how social
status is related to e-cigarette use and the perceptions of how an individual’s
social life will be impacted if they use e-cigarettes. This further brings up
the question that do students only use these e-cigarettes because they are
“cool” or a majority of their peers are using them as well?
This article convinces me that there might be some real connection between vaping and college students. I was a little worried that vaping might just be a general issue that happens to be something college students also do. But this social class aspect seems interesting, and connects to some of the work of Armstrong and Hamilton. I wonder if art of it is the cost of vaping vs. tobacco use? I assume vaping is at least a little more expensive than tobacco use, though I could be wrong. But it would be very useful to know the difference between the two in terms of cost. It could be that vaping has a high cost of entry, in that you have to purchase a gadget to do the vaping with, and that alone might be discouraging for less affluent smokers. But it also seems to me that smoking actual cigarettes is becoming increasingly a lower-class phenomenon. Meanwhile, vaping in high schools (and even middle schools) is very much the thing that students from more (and much more) affluent families do.
ReplyDeleteActually, a little research on the net suggests that vaping is actually cheaper than smoking, though that cost of entry price might be a factor. (I can't say for sure, though, as most of the information I saw was being put out by people with an interest in selling vaping). So you do have to wonder why anyone would NOT switch to vaping, or why tobacco continues to exist at all.
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