Understanding cognitive dissonance in smoking behaviour: A qualitative study
Cognitive dissonance occurs when one’s belief is contradicting with the behavior, according to Festinger’s cognitive dissonance theory.Hence, in smokers’ case, knowing cigarettes will cause harm on their health yet they are smoking, will induce the psychological discomfort.In this qualitative resear...
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| description | Cognitive dissonance occurs when one’s belief is contradicting with the behavior, according to Festinger’s cognitive dissonance theory.Hence, in smokers’ case, knowing cigarettes will cause harm on their health yet they are smoking, will induce the psychological discomfort.In this qualitative research with six (6) smokers who have at least five years of smoking experiences and have attempted to quit smoking before, it is found that cognitive dissonance could be a motivation for change.Influences from living environments and own psychological desires cause the dissonance to take place, and negative feelings such as bad, miserable, guilty and numbness were evidences for the psychological discomfort.Smokers avoid and ignore information, change their belief to align with their smoking behavior and use various defense mechanisms as dissonance reduction strategies in this phenomenon.Self determination is said to be the key in changing behavior instead of belief, without self- determination, participants were more likely to change belief rather than quit smoking. |
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| spelling | uum-192092016-11-13T03:06:47Z https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/19209/ Understanding cognitive dissonance in smoking behaviour: A qualitative study Orcullo, Daisy Jane C. Teo, Hui San BF Psychology Cognitive dissonance occurs when one’s belief is contradicting with the behavior, according to Festinger’s cognitive dissonance theory.Hence, in smokers’ case, knowing cigarettes will cause harm on their health yet they are smoking, will induce the psychological discomfort.In this qualitative research with six (6) smokers who have at least five years of smoking experiences and have attempted to quit smoking before, it is found that cognitive dissonance could be a motivation for change.Influences from living environments and own psychological desires cause the dissonance to take place, and negative feelings such as bad, miserable, guilty and numbness were evidences for the psychological discomfort.Smokers avoid and ignore information, change their belief to align with their smoking behavior and use various defense mechanisms as dissonance reduction strategies in this phenomenon.Self determination is said to be the key in changing behavior instead of belief, without self- determination, participants were more likely to change belief rather than quit smoking. International Association of Computer Science and Information Technology Press (IACSIT Press) 2016 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/19209/1/IJSSH%20%206%206%202016%20%20481-484.pdf Orcullo, Daisy Jane C. and Teo, Hui San (2016) Understanding cognitive dissonance in smoking behaviour: A qualitative study. International Journal of Social Science and Humanity, 6 (6). pp. 481-484. ISSN 2010-3646 http://doi.org/10.7763/IJSSH.2016.V6.695 doi:10.7763/IJSSH.2016.V6.695 doi:10.7763/IJSSH.2016.V6.695 |
| spellingShingle | BF Psychology Orcullo, Daisy Jane C. Teo, Hui San Understanding cognitive dissonance in smoking behaviour: A qualitative study |
| title | Understanding cognitive dissonance in smoking behaviour: A qualitative study |
| title_full | Understanding cognitive dissonance in smoking behaviour: A qualitative study |
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| title_full_unstemmed | Understanding cognitive dissonance in smoking behaviour: A qualitative study |
| title_short | Understanding cognitive dissonance in smoking behaviour: A qualitative study |
| title_sort | understanding cognitive dissonance in smoking behaviour a qualitative study |
| topic | BF Psychology |
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