일부 여대생들의 흡연경험과 흡연 지식, 태도, 스트레스와 자아존중감 관계 연구

Correlations Among Smoking Related Knowledge, Attitudes, Self-esteem , and Stress in the College Women

The purpose of this study is to provide the baseline data to develop a suitable smoking cessation and prevention program for the coliege women. In order to provide the baseline data, the relationships between knowledge and attitudes regarding smoking, and the degree of the stress and self-esteem in the college women were explored. The subjects were 375 coliege women in G City. Data were coliected by using self-administration questionnaire from April 4 to 26, 2000, and data was analyzed using SAS. The findings were as follows; 1. 8.8 percent of the subjects were smoking currently, and 12.5 percent were ever smoked. The mean quantity of cigarettes smoked in a day was 6. Those who are currently smoking because of curiosity(35.9%), to reduce stress(32.0%), and to tolerate pressure from friends and seniors(18.0%). 2. The smoking behaviors of college women were significantly related to satisfaction school life (p=0.008) ， boy friend ’s smoking(p =0.000), girl friend ’s smoking (p=0.001)， and drinking alcohol (p=0.001) 3. Those who are currently smoking had low knowledge regarding smoking(F=8.74, p=0.002), showed more negative attitudes regarding anti-smoking campaign (F=83.08, p=0.001), and also perceived more stress(F=5.90, p=0.003) than those who is not smoking. 4. There were positive correlations between the knowledge and attitudes regarding smoking(r=0.21 , p=0.001). There were negative correlations between attitudes regarding smoking and perceived stress(r=-0.29, p=0.001) ， and perceived stress and self esteem(r=-0.30, p=0.001). From the above results, we notice college women’s smoking were related to knowledge and attitudes regarding smoking and also perceived stress and self esteem. To reduce college women’s smoking, it is necessary to develop and apply gender-specific smoking cessation programs with stress reduction strategy.