This research project suggests that smoking prevention and smoking cessation strategies (e.g., anti-smoking advertising) for adolescents can be helpful to reduce the smoking rates in Korea. Hence, the goal of the research project is to develop effecti ...
This research project suggests that smoking prevention and smoking cessation strategies (e.g., anti-smoking advertising) for adolescents can be helpful to reduce the smoking rates in Korea. Hence, the goal of the research project is to develop effective and efficient smoking prevention and smoking cessation strategies for Korean adolescents by conducting three studies. In the first study (Study 1), a meta-analysis was performed on 16 previous studies which had investigated Korean adolescent smoking behavior. The results showed that self-efficacy among psychological factors and friends’ smoking among social factors had the greatest effect on Korean adolescent smoking behavior. The self-efficacy is here defined as the extent to which an adolescent is confident in his/her own ability to achieve his/her intended results in his/her daily life (e.g., good grades in his/her final examinations). In the second study (Study 2), a survey with 619 students of middle schools and high schools in the region which is at a high risk of harmful effects of adolescent smoking (Providence A) was conducted. The self-efficacy, friends’ smoking, demographic characteristics (e.g., age), economic characteristics (e.g., economic level), perception of smoking (e.g., perceived physical harmfulness of smoking), actual state of smoking (e.g., smoking status), and perceived effectiveness of previous smoking prevention and smoking cessation activities were measured by using a questionnaire. After applying the market segmentation technique to the data obtained from the adolescents, the adolescent cigarette consumption groups (non-smoking adolescents were included in the groups) in Province A were found to be classified into 4 segments (Middle self-efficacy/None has smoking friends, Low self-efficacy/Majority has smoking friends, High self-efficacy/Majority has smoking friends, Middle self-efficacy/All have smoking friends) based on two variables (self-efficacy and friends’ smoking). The differences in various characteristics of each group were identified after conducting ANOVA tests and χ2 tests. In the last study (Study 3), three F.G.I.(Focus Group Interview)’s with 4 practitioners related to marketing or advertising and 5 practitioners related to community adolescent health services were conducted to develop effective and efficient smoking prevention and smoking cessation strategies for each of the 4 segments identified from Study 2. The following research paper provides the detail results of the research project.
Kang, J., & Lim, S. (2017). A study on developing effective smoking prevention and anti-smoking strategies related to adolescent smoking: Applying meta-analysis and market segmentation technique. Social Science Studies, 41(1), 75-107.