Factors Concerning Smoking Behavior of King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi's Students

Abstract

There are five objectives in the study of çFactors Concerning Smoking Behavior of King MongkutûsUniversity of Technology Thonburi Student.é Firstly, to study relationship between enabling factor, reinforcingfactor, predisposing factor and smoking behavior. Secondly, to study co-factors between enabling factor andreinforcing factor and smoking behavior. Thirdly, to study co-factors between enabling factor and predisposingfactor and smoking behavior. Fourthly, to study co-factors between reinforcing factor and predisposing factorand smoking behavior. Fifthly, to study predisposing factor of the prediction of the smoking behavior. Thesamples who are undergraduates randomized by clusteringly sampling from Department of Mechanical Engineeringand Production Engineering of King Mongkutûs University of Technology Thonburi are one hundred and seventynine smoking students. The analyses used in this study are t-test, ANOVA, and MRA. The results of the study areas follows.

1. There is high level of smoking behavior in the groups of the students who have high incomes, goodattitude toward smoking behavior, low future orientation characteristic, and of those influenced by peer groups.2. There is higher level of smoking behavior in the groups of the students who perceive low prices of cigarettesand have smoking peers; who have high incomes and smoking peers; who perceive low prices of cigarettes andare highly influenced by peers; who perceive low prices of cigarettes and have low internal locus of control; whoperceive low prices of cigarettes and have bad mental health; who perceive low prices of cigarettes and have lowfuture orientation; who have high incomes and good attitudes toward smoking; who receive cigarettes andmistaken belief about cigarettes from parents; who stay with parents and have low future orientation; who havelow knowledge about cigarettes and whose familiesû members have smoking behavior; and, who have smokingpeers and low locus of control. 3. Predisposing factor can predict smoking behavior significantly. Variables of theprediction of the smoking behavior are : future orientation, mental health, attitude toward smoking behavior andinternal locus of control (Beta .62, .41, .27, .18)