Stage-of-change of smoking acquisition in South African high-school adolescents : a cross-sectional study of decisional balance, temptation and perceived social norms.

Stage-of-change of smoking acquisition in South African high-school adolescents : a cross-sectional study of decisional balance, temptation and perceived social norms.

This study aimed to use the Transtheoretical Model of behaviour change (Prochaska and DiClemente, 1983) to investigate the process of smoking initiation in a cross-section of high school adolescents in urban KwaZulu-Natal. This aim was informed by the increase in incidence of smoking among adolescen...

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Main Author: Burnard, Andrew James.
Other Authors: Lindegger, Graham Charles.
Language:en
Published: 2011
Subjects:
Youth > Tobacco use > South Africa.
Smoking > South Africa.
Youth > South Africa > Social conditions.
Cigarette habit.
Theses > Psychology.
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10413/2885

Internet

http://hdl.handle.net/10413/2885

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