This research is a discriptive study to seek out the factors influencing smoking by comparing stress life events and social support on smoking status of the high school students.
382 students are randomly selected among 1400 students at a technical high school in Chung Buk Province as the subjects of this research.
The research instrument, Adolescent Life Change Events Questionnaire(ALCEQ) developed by Mendez, Yeaworth, York, and Goodwin(1980), revised by Jeung-Suk Lee and GiI - Ja Jo(1982) and reamended by Hyeon - Kyung Park91992) is utilized to measure
the
stress life events. And also the social support questionnaire developed by Norbeck(1981) is used to survey the social support.
The period of data collection was eight days from June 16,1992 to June 23 and the data was analyzed with spss - x program.
The stress life events and social support on the smoking status was calculated in virtue of the mean score and the standard deviation.
One Way ANOVA was utilized to analyze the difference of smoking group, ex-smoking group, and non-smoking group.
@ES The results of this study are as follows :
@EN 1. The mean score of stress the events experience score was 28.81 and standard deviation 6.32 in the smoker; that of the ex-smoker was 27.64 and standard deviation 5.94 ; and that of the nonsmoker was 26.75 and standard deviation 6.69. The
mean
score of the stress life events experience score in the smoker was the highest of all.
Nor difference was found among the three groups in the mean score of stress life events experience score(F=4.38, P>.05).
2. The mean score of stress life events score was 95.98 and standard deviation 26.65 in the smoker ; that of the ex-smoker was 86.84 and standard deviation 25.44 ; and that of the non-smoker was 83.35 and standard deviation 28.30. The mean score
of
stress life events score in the smoker was the highest of all.
The significant difference was found among the three groups in the mean score of stress life events score(F=9.11, p<.01).
3. The mean score of total functional support was 328.17 and standard deviation 148.73 in the smoker ; that of the ex-smoker was 303.61 and standard deviation 138.91 ; and that of the non-smoker was 338.59 and standard deviation 162.55.
The mean score of total functional support score in the non-smoker was the highest of all.
No difference was found among the three groups in the mean score of total functional support (F=0.83, p>.05).
4. The mean score of total social support network was 132.58 and standard deviation 55.14 in the smoker; that of the ex-smoker was 122.58 and standard deviation 53.15 ; and that of the nonsmoker was 135.26 and standard deviation 58.17.
The mean score of total social support network in the non-smoker was the highest of all.
No difference was found among the three groups in the mean score of total social support network (F=0.79, p>.05).
5. In the means of scores of total functional support scores by the supporters, no difference was found among the three groups in the case of father brothers and sisters, seniors, juniors, friends and others.
But the significant difference was found among the three group in the case of mother(F=4.11, P<.01), relatives(F= 7.90, P<.01) and teachers(F=3.26, P<.05).
Consequently, stress life events react as an influencing factor of smoking in the high school students. We know that there is difference among smoking group, ex-smoking group, and non-smoking group by supporters.
Therefore, in case that the social support is used effectively after relation between stress and smoking is identified more concretely, it is considered that the rate of smoking in the high school students is decreased and their physical,
psycholosical
harm the smoking is reduced.
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