Prevention of cigarette smoking in adolescents
Smoking is the biggest threat to public health, and it remains a serious cause of death in the world. It even causes acute and chronic diseases in passive smokers. Remarkably, the age of the onset of cigarette smoking is decreasing. Therefore, it is essential to increase our knowledge concerning the...
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Lambert Academic Publishing
2014
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| author | Abdollahi, Abbas Abu Talib, Mansor |
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| description | Smoking is the biggest threat to public health, and it remains a serious cause of death in the world. It even causes acute and chronic diseases in passive smokers. Remarkably, the age of the onset of cigarette smoking is decreasing. Therefore, it is essential to increase our knowledge concerning the attitudes among adolescents toward cigarette smoking. The book seeks to examine the role of hardiness and emotional intelligence with attitude towards cigarette smoking in adolescents. The findings showed that hardiness and emotional intelligence were protective factors against smoking in adolescents. Therefore, these findings reinforce the importance of hardiness training and emotional intelligence training in preventing cigarette smoking in adolescents. |
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| spelling | upm.eprints-380202015-05-26T08:26:36Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/38020/ Prevention of cigarette smoking in adolescents Abdollahi, Abbas Abu Talib, Mansor Smoking is the biggest threat to public health, and it remains a serious cause of death in the world. It even causes acute and chronic diseases in passive smokers. Remarkably, the age of the onset of cigarette smoking is decreasing. Therefore, it is essential to increase our knowledge concerning the attitudes among adolescents toward cigarette smoking. The book seeks to examine the role of hardiness and emotional intelligence with attitude towards cigarette smoking in adolescents. The findings showed that hardiness and emotional intelligence were protective factors against smoking in adolescents. Therefore, these findings reinforce the importance of hardiness training and emotional intelligence training in preventing cigarette smoking in adolescents. Lambert Academic Publishing 2014-01-30 Book PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/38020/1/Prevention%20of%20cigarette%20smoking%20in%20adolescents.pdf Abdollahi, Abbas and Abu Talib, Mansor (2014) Prevention of cigarette smoking in adolescents. Lambert Academic Publishing, Germany. ISBN 3659521833/9783659521836 |
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