1、Research on Relations among Adolescences Smoking Behavior, Family Factors, Stress, Self-esteem and Personality Abstract 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 a
2、dolescence. 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 onadolescences smoking behavior are seen in educational and psychological field. Different researches define smokin
3、g 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 i
4、s 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.Finally, the results of multiple linear regression show that
5、 sex, parent smoking,stress and psychoticism is independently related with adolescent smoking behavior. Youth has become the worlds rapidly growing group of consumers of cigarettes.Smoking behavior of young people is directly related to its adult smoking behavior, the majority of adult smokers are s
6、tarting from a young age and formed a smoking habit.For the seriousness of youth smoking, scholars have started on this issue a lot of research. At present, the problem of youth smoking research in the following two aspects: whether the factors that led to the smoking behavior of young people? How t
7、o prevent young people smoking? A problem after a question before the research-based,so the impact factors of youth smoking is increasingly becoming the focus of research.Some studies suggest that the parents within the family, environmental factors affect the smoking behavior of adolescents, some s
8、tudies suggest that social impact of external environment on smoking behavior of adolescents, some studies suggest that adolescent smoking behavior is determined by its individual caused by internal factors.However, the factors that influence youth smoking behavior itself is complex, research in thi
9、s area still continue to explore the stage, there is not a complete theoretical system and a unified qualitative conclusions. Youth smoking is a serious social problem, caused by the problems of young smokers has become the focus of the community, how to prevent and reduce youth smoking behavior is
10、an urgent need to address the problem. People smoke in life itself is an invisible killer, smoking can cause cancer and other malignant diseases, and adolescents are at an important period of physical growth. Smoking behavior of young people will enable them to produce a series of problem behavior,
11、such as smoking, drinking and even suicide, the existing research on youth smoking behavior of adolescent smoking behavior with that many bad consequences such as poor school performance, bad behavior in school, do not want to go to school, problem behavior (kieiman, et al, 1988). These young people
12、 are no doubt a great impact on physical and mental health. In addition, young people are in life and world view formed during a problem behavior during this period, will seriously endanger their mental health development. From the smoking behavior of young people and smoking two aspects of family a
13、nd youth smoking-related environmental factors, parental factors, to understand the stress levels, self-esteem, personality tendencies characteristics, and analysis of youth smoking internal mechanism of smoking behavior, and promote the healthy development of young people the positive factors, nega
14、tive factors on the growth of young people to resist the impact. 1.family structure and the relationship between youth smoking Over the past few decades the social conditions in many countries important changes have taken place, one of which is living in single-parent families and step-parent famili
15、es in the rapidly growing number of children. With divorce and remarriagerates in society is growing, born in incomplete families of children is also increasing.After investigation, in 1998 young people aged 11 to experience a 1S number ofparents divorced twice in 1978 (Summerfield & Matheson, 2000)
16、. Worth noting that these grow in single-parent families or step-parent families withchildren than other children the same age may experience more adverse factors. First,the average income of single parent families and average household income than the average three times lower (Eurostat, 2000). The
17、se studies also found that step-parents /single parent families often have a lot of young people in a negative way of life, such a negative way of life and among young people is closely related to unhealthy life. In addition, We can learn from the social and cultural point of view to explore this is
18、sue, usually, fromyoung families do not complete the incidence of problem behavior is far higher than the general youth, such as these children rarely in school, life Showed good quality, in theearly days, they usually have higher absenteeism rates and truancy rates in them are more prone to deviant
19、 behavior and problem behavior, such as criminal behavior,running away from home and close contact with the health of some of the acts Issues, such as smoking (Sweeting, West, & Richards, 1998). Like many Western countriesstudies have found young people from non-intact families have higher smoking rates( Isohanni, Moilanen &Rantakallio, 1991；Goddard&Higgins, 1999； Tyas&Pederson,1998； Shakib, Mouttapa,Johnson, 2003)。 But there is still debate this question: do not complete a full family and between families caused by the difference really is a major factor in
