The Social Cognitive Model Of Smoking Initiation Prevention In Adolescents

This study was aimed to test the effectiveness of social cognitive model for the prevention of
smoking initiation among adolescents. The hypothesis of this study was: the social cognitive model
was effective to reduce the smoking initiation among adolescents. The subjects were 94 students
of junior high school in Bantul, divided into 47 students as experimental group and 47 students as
controlling group. The initiation to smoking was revealed by the scale of smoking initiation with
different power-item ranged from 0.228 to 0.618 and the reliability coefficient α = 0.851. Data
were analyzed by independent sample t test and paired sample t test. The results of independent
sample t test showed the difference smoking initiation between the experimental group and the
controlling group. The experimental group had lower smoking initiation scores than the controlling
group. The results of paired sample t test to the experimental group showed the smoking initiation
after treatment was lower than before treatment. In addition, there were no differences in the
controlling group before and after treatment. The analysis also showed that the average of gain
score in the experimental group was higher than controlling group. It can be concluded that the
social cognitive model was effective to prevention of smoking initiation among adolescents.