Smoking Behavior Change among Junior High School Youth

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Abstract
The authors studied a sample of junior high school students who had made a change of behavior either from smoker to nonsmoker or from nonsmoker to smoker. The purpose of the study was to identify those attitude-belief factors associated with a change in smoking behavior. Results from this study indicate that there are certain attitude and belief characteristics that correlate highly with current smoking behavior status. This study has also shown that the attitude-belief scale employed by the authors was sensitive to change of attitudes and beliefs by reflecting significant changes in total scores obtained by the different smoking behavior groupings.