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    Family and Friends' Smoking, and Personal Coping Styles as Predictors of Cigarette Smoking among AAU Main Campus Students
    (Addis Ababa University, 2006-06) Wuhib, Tigist; Surendra, Dubey (PhD)
    The purpose of this study was to investigate whether family s moking, friends'smoking, and students' coping styles have significant contribution on the prediction of cigarette s moking among university students in main campus of Addis Ababa University. A self-reported questionnaire comprising students' family and friends s moking s tatus items, coping scale, and cigarette use inventory was administered to a random sample of 658 male students. Chi-square and binary logistic regression analyses were used for analysis. Results obtained through chi-square analys is displayed that fathers' s moking, brothers' smoking and friends ' smoking associated s ignificantly with cigarette smoking of students. Howe ver, there was no association between smokers and non-smokers related to mothers', sisters' and other family members' smoking. Coping styles (productive, non-productive and reference to others) also associated s ignificantly with cigare tte s moking of students. Logistic regresszon analysis re vealed that fathers' smoking, brothers' smoking and friends' smoking significantly predicted cigarette smoking of students. Students who have father, brother(s} or friend(s} who smoke are more likely to practice smoking behaviors than those students with non-smoker father, brother(s} or friend(s}. Similarly, coping styles (productive, non-productive and reference to others) significantly predicted cigarette smoking of students. Students with lower scores on productive coping s tyle and/ or refe rence to othe rs coping style, and/or higher score on the non-productive coping style indicated more likely to s moke. The logistic regression result also revealed that friends ' smoking was a dominant independent predictor of cigarette smoking of students. These results highlight the importance of cons idering smoking by fathers, brothers and friends, and the p ersonal coping styles for the early detection of cigarette s moking.
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    Family and Friends' Smoking, and Personal Coping Styles as Predictors of Cigarette Smoking among Aau Main Campus Students
    (Addis Ababa University, 2006-06) Wuhib, Tigist; Surendra, Dubey (PhD)
    The purpose of this study was to investigate whether family smoking, friends'smoking, and students' coping styles have significant contribution on the prediction of cigarette smoking among university students in main campus of Addis Ababa University. A self-reported questionnaire comprising students' family and friends smoking status items, coping scale, and cigarette use inventory was administered to a random sample of 658 male students. Chi-square and binary logistic regression analyses were used for analysis. Results obtained through chi-square analysis displayed that fathers' smoking, brothers' smoking and friends' smoking associated significantly with cigarette smoking of students. However, there was no association between smokers and non-smokers related to mothers', sisters' and other family members' smoking. Coping styles (productive, non-productive and reference to others) also associated significantly with cigarette smoking of students. Logistic regression analysis revealed that fathers' smoking, brothers' smoking and friends' smoking significantly predicted cigarette smoking of students. Students who have father, brother{s) or friend(s) who smoke are more likely to practice smoking behaviors than those students with non-smoker father, brother{s) or friend(s). Similarly, coping styles (productive, non-productive and reference to others) significantly predicted cigarette smoking of students. Students with lower scores on productive coping style and/or reference to others coping style, and/or higher score on the non-productive coping style indicated more likely to smoke. The logistic regression result also revealed that friends' smoking was a dominant independent predictor of cigarette smoking of students. These results highlight the importance of considering smoking by fathers, brothers and friends, and the personal coping styles for the early detection of cigarette smoking.