Research On Relations Among Adolescence's Smoking Behavior, Family Factors, Stress, Self-esteem And Personality

Smoking behavior is a sign that adolescence begin problem behavior. Smoking behavior is often associated with other kinds of problem behavior and is harm to health development of adolescence. Figures of recent survey have shown that in many county smoking prevalence among young people increased rapidly, many researchers pay attention to the case, many researches on adolescence's smoking behavior are seen in educational and psychological field, but these researches mainly focus on Europe and American. As a largest country of smoking produced and a most country of population, the number of smoking adolescence is an important part of the total number of smoking adolescence all over the world. In addition, In our county, the rate of adolescent smoking increases constantly. Founding based on a survey from Beijing, during past five years, the number of male smoking adolescence rise from 18% to 38%. On the contrary, researches on the subject are very little in our country. Based on different culture background, factors associated with adolescent smoking behavior in our country is significantly distinctive to other countries, so in order to carry on smoking cessation effectively, mechanism and feature of adolescent smoking must be researched in our country.Different researches define smoking behavior in different ways. This subject researches smoking behavior from two aspects: smoking habit and smoking quantity. The subject also researches some factors associated with adolescent smoking behavior from two aspects: one is outside circumstance that is involved in family life, the other is personal factors that include perceived stress, self-esteem and personality. The subject does this to explore which factor is connected with smoking behavior. As a result, the study makes some suggestion for smoking cession in adolescent.Part one is literature review. In this part, researches on adolescent smoking are reviewed. Some insufficient aspects in current researches are analyzed. This part is made up of the following section: theories about adolescent smoking, social learning, problem behavior and social attachment models of learning and behavior contributeto our understanding about adolescent smoking; the relationship between adolescent smoking and family circumstance; relationship among adolescent smoking, perceived stress and self-esteem; relationship between smoking behavior and personality.Part two is intention, deficiency and hypothesis of the study are set. and The current researches didn't synthesize to analyze the relationship among smoking, family invirnment, stress, self-esteem and personality. Few personal factors were considered in current researches. Furthermore, as for China, due to its unique cultural environment, few demonstration research was done on adolescent smoking. Finally, Based on current researches, we hypothesize that adolescent smoking is connected with parent style, parent education, parent control, family structure and adolescent income. At the same environment, adolescent smoking behavior is different, so we also believe that adolescent smoking is associated with self-esteem, stress and personality.In part three, method are mentioned. The instruments of this study are EMBU Parent Style Scale, Parent Control Scale, self-Esteem Scale, Adolescent Life Events Scale, Eysenck Personality Questionnaire. 514 students from junior and senior high school are surveyed.In part four, based on our survey, the subject uses Chi-square, One-Way ANOVA and Multiple linear Regression to statistics data collected. The results of the research are described.Part five is discussion. Results of the study were discussed and explained according to current studies. Reliability of the results is analyzed. Drawbacks of the study are summarized.In last part, we draw some conclusion and gave some advice to researchers and workers of psychological and educational field. Conclusions of the study are as follow:First, adolescent smoking behavior and smoking quantity vary from grade to grade, from male to female. With r...