This study is attempted to contribute toward planning the effective smoking preventive education's program, considering the psychological characteristic of the smoker when the teacher do the smoking preventive education for the students after measurin...
This study is attempted to contribute toward planning the effective smoking preventive education's program, considering the psychological characteristic of the smoker when the teacher do the smoking preventive education for the students after measuring to the compare the degree of self-esteem, anxiety and depression between smoking group and non-smoking group among the vocational highschool and comprehending the correlation between each variations.
The subjects of this study were two vocational highschool students in the city of Taejon and the sample was 698 students.
The data was collected by means of a self-reported questionnaire for 20 days from June 19 through July 8, 2000.
The instrument used for this study were self-exteem scale by Rosenberg(1965), Self-rating Anxiety Scale(SAS) by zung(1971), Self-rating Depression Scale(SDS) by Zung & Durhamec(1965) The collected data were statistically analysed using by SPSS/pc program 10.0 for Windows, using frequency, percentage, t-test, ANOVA, Pearson's Correlation Coefficient.
The findings of this study were as follows:
1. The first hypothesis : 'The self-esteem degree of smoking group might be lower than those of non-smoking' was supported(t=-3.84, p<.000).
2. The second hypothesis : 'The anxiety degree of smoking group might be higher than those of non-smoking group' was supported(t=5.18, p<.000).
3. The third hypothesis : 'The depression degree of smoking group might be higher than those of non-smoking group' was not supported(t=1.88, p<.05).
4. The fourth hypothesis : 'The relationship among self-exteem anxiety, depression of smoking group might be correlated' was supported(r=-.370, p<.000 ; r=-.498, p<.000 ; r=.688, p<.000).
5. The differences of degree in self-exteem, anxiety and depression of smoking group as analysed according to general characteristics. There were statistically significant differences as below : anxiety according to parent's circumstances, depression according to sex, religion, parent's circumstances, parent's smoking or not, school record.
The result of this study showed that the difference of the degree of anxiety and self-exteem between smoking group and non-smoking group among vocational highschool and the correlation between each variations were, So we recognized the necessity of the continous development and the application of the smoking preventive education's program that reduce their anxiety and enhance their self-exteem, considering the smoker's psychological characteristic, not only the education for a knowledge and an attitude about smoking when the adolescent's smoking preventive education program is planned.
A few thesis already reported that self-efficacy promotion program and cognitive-behavioral anti-smoking education were effective and the need of amoking preventive education increase as the growing rate of the adolescent's smoking but the counterplan of the adolescent's smoking is required for people health in future as school don't have any programs for the systematics and regular smoking preventive education and behavior guidance.
And on the basis of the this study's result, teachers, student's parents and society must educate them together for the effective smoking preventive education of the adolescent's smoking.