Smoking Stress and Coping Skilss Among Young Adults

Abstract

This aim of this study is to investigate therelationships between smoking and copingskills. Data related to smoking status and copingskills are collected by using the coping skillsinventory. Data were obtained from a randomsample of 127 women (31%) and 279 men(69%). Data were analayzed by independetsample t test and corellation techniques. Therewere significant differences between womenand men smoking rates (t= -4.42, p<.001) andsmoking duration (t= -5.43, p<.001). Theseresults also suggest that there were significantpositive relationships between biochemical coping skill and smoking rate (r= .11, <.001) andsmoking duration (r= .87, <.001). Results werediscussed by taking findings from the literatureinto account

Keywords

• Smoking, stress, coping skills

Genç Yetişkinlerde Sigara İçme Stres ve Başa Çıkma Becerileri

Abstract

Bu çalışmanın amacı sigara içme ile streslebaşa çıkma becerileri arasındaki ilişkileri incelemektir. Sigara içme alışkanlığı ve başa çıkmayailişkin bilgiler Stresle Başaçıkma Envanteri iletoplanmıştır. Veriler random olarak seçilen 127kadın (% 31) ve 279 erkek (% 69) örneklemdenelde edilmiştir. Veriler bağımsız t testi ve korelasyon tekniği ile analiz edilmiştir. Kadınlarlaerkeklerin sigara içme oranları (t= -4.42, p<.001)ve sigara içme süreleri (t= -5.43, p<.001)arasında anlamlı farklar gözlenmiştir. Sonuçlarbiyokimyasal başa çıkma becerileri ile sigaraiçme miktarı (r= .11, <.001) ve sigara içme süresi (r= .87, <.001) arasında pozitif yönde anlamlıilişkiler olduğunu göstermiştir. Elde edilensonuçlar literatür bulgularıyla tartışılmıştır

Keywords

• Sigara içme, stres,başa çıkma becerileri

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