Family and Friends' Smoking, and Personal Coping Styles as Predictors of Cigarette Smoking among AAU Main Campus Students
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2006-06
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Addis Ababa University
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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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