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Source: Journal of Applied Social Psychology
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1. Bard, David E.
Rodgers, Joseph Lee
Sibling Influence on Smoking Behavior: A Within-Family Look at Explanations for a Birth-Order Effect
Journal of Applied Social Psychology 33,9 (September 2003): 1773-1795.
Also: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1559-1816.2003.tb02080.x/abstract
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing, Inc. => Wiley Online
Keyword(s): Birth Order; Cigarette Use (see Smoking); Family Models; Family Studies; Siblings

Using a repeated-measures design, we found a significant birth-order relationship suggesting lower ages of smoking onset in later born siblings of a 1979 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth cohort. Two social learning mechanisms, modeling and opportunity, were explored to help illuminate the causes of trends in the within-family means. When empirical patterns were compared to predictions derived from our specifications of how opportunity and modeling processes should work, the results were unsuccessful in explaining the birth-order effect. As a third explanation of the birth-order effect, telescoping did show a significant influence. The effect size was small, however, and had little effect on the group means assessed. Finally, a pattern did emerge that was consistent with a reformulation of the opportunity process in which sisters play a particularly strong role. We develop future research implications of this pattern and speculate on genetic and social conservatism explanations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Bibliography Citation
Bard, David E. and Joseph Lee Rodgers. "Sibling Influence on Smoking Behavior: A Within-Family Look at Explanations for a Birth-Order Effect." Journal of Applied Social Psychology 33,9 (September 2003): 1773-1795.