Familial determinants of current smoking among adolescents of Lithuania: a cross-sectional survey 2014

BMC Public Health

Table 1 Demographic and parental characteristics of the studied total sample and subsample

Predictors	Number	Percent	P ^a
Total sample, N = 3696
Gender:
Boys	1888	51.1
Girls	1808	48.9
Age:
13-year-old	2004	54.2
15-year-old	1692	45.8
Family FAS:
Low	1322	36.9
Medium	1567	43.7
High	696	19.4
Family structure:
Intact family	2528	68.6
Not-intact family	1158	31.4
Subsample of respondents living in intact families, N = 2528
Gender:
Boys	1290	51.0
Girls	1238	49.0
Age:
13 years old	1392	55.1
15 years old	1136	44.9
Family FAS:
Low	779	31.7
Medium	1110	45.2
High	566	23.1
Satisfaction with family relationships:
High	2144	86.2
Low	342	13.8
Communication with the father:
Easy	1484	63.0	<0.001
Difficult	870	37.0
Communication with the mother:
Easy	1791	75.8
Difficult	572	24.2
Quality of communication in the family:
Good	1567	62.5
Poor	941	37.5
Father's monitoring:
High	1234	49.2	<0.001
Low	1274	50.8
Mother's monitoring:
High	1549	61.8
Low	959	38.2
School-related parental support:
High	1294	51.6
Low	1214	48.4
Family time together:
Often	1177	46.7
Rare	1345	53.3
Father's emotional support:
High	1445	57.2	0.002
Low	1083	42.8
Mother's emotional support:
High	1555	61.5
Low	973	38.5
Father's parenting style:
Authoritative- Reciprocal	1045	42.2	<0.001
Permissive-indulgent	1017	41.2
Authoritarian-repressive	194	7.8
Permissive-neglectful	218	8.8
Mather's parenting style:
Authoritative-reciprocal	1147	46.1
Permissive-indulgent	1085	43.6
Authoritarian-repressive	158	6.4
Permissive-neglectful	98	3.9
Electronic media communication with parents
Often	1099	43.5
Rare	1428	56.5
Seeing of the father
Every day	1912	77.4	<0.001
Not every day	559	22.6
Seeing of the mother
Every day	2333	94.0
Not every day	148	6.0

^aSignificant difference in respondents' opinion about the father and the mother (Chi-squared test)

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