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Factors associated with smoking refusal self-efficacy among Finnish and Portuguese early adolescents.
- Source :
- Journal of Substance Use; Feb2024, Vol. 29 Issue 1, p85-91, 7p
- Publication Year :
- 2024
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Abstract
- Research indicates that refusal self-efficacy predicts adolescent smoking behavior and needs to be addressed in health education programs. Developing such programs requires examining the factors associated with smoking refusal self-efficacy in the target group. Thus, our study examined factors associated with smoking refusal self-efficacy among early adolescents in Finland and Portugal. Self-reported data on smoking refusal self-efficacy, smoking outcome expectations, smoking-related attitudes, motives, and motivations were obtained from 295 early adolescents, and analyzed using a logistic regression and correlation calculations. Experiences with tobacco, smoking-related attitudes and motives, the motivation to refrain from smoking in the future, and smoking outcome expectations were associated with smoking refusal self-efficacy. Gender, and the smoking behavior of relatives and friends were independent predictors of smoking refusal self-efficacy. The findings were similar in both countries. Our results strengthen the notion that parental smoking is not associated with smoking refusal self-efficacy of early adolescents but smoking by friends and relatives and gender favoring girls are. Thus, health education programs aiming to support early adolescent smoking refusal self-efficacy need to consider the role of peer influence and the social acceptance of smoking and place more emphasis on effectively supporting boys' smoking refusal self-efficacy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- FRIENDSHIP
KRUSKAL-Wallis Test
SMOKING cessation
PORTUGUESE people
SELF-evaluation
CROSS-sectional method
MOTIVATION (Psychology)
MANN Whitney U Test
SELF-efficacy
SEX distribution
SCALE analysis (Psychology)
DESCRIPTIVE statistics
CHI-squared test
RESEARCH funding
SOCIAL skills
JUDGMENT sampling
STATISTICAL sampling
DATA analysis software
LOGISTIC regression analysis
FINNS
TOBACCO
SECONDARY analysis
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 14659891
- Volume :
- 29
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Journal of Substance Use
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 175233813
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/14659891.2022.2139302