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KMID : 0379819830010010037
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Journal of Korean Society for Health Education and Promotion
1983 Volume.1 No. 1 p.37 ~ p.56
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A Survey on Cigarette Smoking Behavior of High School Students in Seoul
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李英淑/Lee, Young Sook
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Abstract
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It is well known that smoking habit is hazardous to health, especially for juvenile.
The present study on smoking behavior of high school students in Seoul has two major objectives.
The first objective is to find out the smoking behavior of high school students in Seoul. Toward this objective, individual´s smoking experience has, been examined as, ever smoking and never ,smoking.
The second objective is to´ determine the variables associated with their smoking behavior at . the individual, family and school environment, levels.
For the data collection, the survey was carried out for the four high schools in Seoul from September 15 through October 15, 1982.
The major findings are summarized as follows:
1. Smoking behavior of the students
1) Out of 1, 278 respondents, 30.2% of them were found to be current smokers and 29.3% of them were former smokers.
This implies that around 60% of school students in Seoul have experienced smoking.
2) A significant differences in the current smoking rates between two types of the school students were shown as 19.3% for day-time school and 42% for night-time school.
3) In terms of the current smoking behavior, the students who don´t live with parents were higher in smoking rate than those of the living with parents.
2. Attitudes and knowledge about smoking
1) Attitudes of students toward smoking in high school days were shown that around 17% of them agreed with it and around 64% of them disagreed with it.
2) Around 99% of the respondents answered that their smoking is harmful for health.
A source of the information about negative effects of smoking on health was `Radio and T.V.´ (23.9%) as the most influential, school teacher´ (20.9%), `Newspaper´ (18.2%) and so on.
3. Behavioral analysis for the current smokers
1) The factors affected for motivation in the first smoking were curiosity (59.7%), temptation of friend (19.7%), resistance feeling, (7.1%0), merely interest and pleasure (6%) respectively.
2) The time of the first smoking was third grade of junior-high school´ (31.5%) as highest, `first grade of Senior-high school´ (23.7x%) and `second grade of Junior-high school´ (14. 7%).
3) An average daily number of cigarettes consuming of current smokers was seven cigarettes.
4. Family and school-mates influences on individual´s smoking behavior
1) The data revealed a significant relationship between student´s smoking and their parent´s smoking behavior. Around 75% of the students whom both parents are smoking have experienced cigarette smoking.
It was found that the individual´s smoking behavior was influenced by his sibling. Around 65% of the students whom brothers are smoking have experienced cigarette smoking.
2) The `Smoking-Index´ of friendship network or a group explained individual´s smoking behavior in the group. The result of dyad analysis of smoking behavior in the friendship network showed that a high score of Smoking-Index tended to be explained an adoption of smoking behavior at the individual level in the group, on the other hand, a low score of `Smoking-Index´ explained non-smoking behavior in the group.
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