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KMID : 0928320070070040229
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Korean Journal of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
2007 Volume.7 No. 4 p.229 ~ p.237
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The Factors Affecting Adolescent Smoking in Korea
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Lee Hung-Sa
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Abstract
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Background: The smoking rate of high school students keeps increasing, and it has been pointed out as an important factor influencing adolescents’ health. The purpose of this study was to determine the psychosocial factors influencing smoking experience of Korean high school students.
Methods: The design of this study is a cross-sectional self-administered questionnaire survey. 1,167 high school students in South Korea were recruited during August 1-November 30 in 2003. The independent variables included sociodemographic characteristics, knowledge about smoking, self-efficacy and self-esteem, and the dependent variables were the students’ smoking experience and their intention of smoking.
Results: The percentage of regular smoker was 17.0% in male, 2.2% in female. The factors significantly affected to smoking were gender(Χ2=142.31, p<.01), grade(Χ2=8.97, p<.05), religion(Χ2=9.78, p<.01), mother’s smoking(Χ2=16.00, p<.01), grand-mother’s smoking(Χ2=5.66, p<.01), sibling’s smoking(Χ2=22.09, p<.01), friends’ smoking(Χ2=197.20, p<.01). Intention of smoking(r=.51, p<.01), was strongly correlated to smoking experience. Knowledge about smoking(r=.10, p<.01) and self-esteem(r=.13, p<.01) were also weakly correlated to smoking experience.
Conclusions: The findings suggest that the smoking prevention education should involve students’ family members and/or friends who influence the students’ smoking experience, and the education program should include a strategies to increase self-esteem and self-efficacy. Adolescent’s drinking is associated with an elevated risk of smoking experience, so the program also needs to include some contents about the harmful effects of smoking and drinking.
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KEYWORD
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adolescents, smoking, self-esteem, self-efficacy
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