A Latent Growth Modeling Analysis of Social Norms and Tobacco Use among Adult Smokers in Mainland China.
behavior change
social norms
tobacco
social norms intervention
By fitting several latent growth models, we demonstrate that the influence of social norms on tobacco use for adult smokers in Mainland China exerts a significant effect on tobacco use over time, controlling for several factors such as level of addiction, exposure to pro-tobacco media, and many more. The paper also leverages a Bayesian estimator to fit a high-dimensional latent growth model. The data cover five waves of measurement over nine years, comprising a longitudinal sample of over 1,000 individuals.
This paper is in preparation for submission to Prevention Science.