Family and Friends' Smoking, and Personal Coping Styles as Predictors of Cigarette Smoking among AAU Main Campus Students
| dc.contributor.advisor | Surendra, Dubey (PhD) | |
| dc.contributor.author | Wuhib, Tigist | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2019-11-29T13:27:27Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-11-10T14:46:37Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2019-11-29T13:27:27Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-11-10T14:46:37Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2006-06 | |
| dc.description.abstract | 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. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://etd.aau.edu.et/handle/12345678/20291 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Addis Ababa University | en_US |
| dc.subject | IER | en_US |
| dc.title | Family and Friends' Smoking, and Personal Coping Styles as Predictors of Cigarette Smoking among AAU Main Campus Students | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |