ArticleGlobal health research and policy2016
Protection motivation theory and cigarette smoking among vocational high school students in China: a cusp catastrophe modeling analysis.
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backgroundTobacco use is one of the greatest public health problems worldwide and the hazards of cigarette smoking to public health call for better recognition of cigarette smoking behaviors to guide evidence-based policy. Protection motivation theory (PMT) provides a conceptual framework to investigate tobacco use. Evidence from diverse sources implies that the dynamics of smoking behavior may be quantum in nature, consisting of an intuition and an analytical process, challenging the traditional linear continuous analytical approach. In this study, we used cusp catastrophe, a nonlinear analytical approach to test the dual-process hypothesis of cigarette smoking.
methodsData were collected from a random sample of vocational high school students in China (
resultsConsistent with PMT, the Threat Appraisal (asymmetry, α
conclusionStudy findings support the conclusion that cigarette smoking in adolescents is a quantum process and PMT is relevant to guide studies to understand smoking behavior for smoking prevention and cessation.
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