Enquiring the effect of metacognitive beliefs and religious attitude on the tendency to cigarette use in adolescents

Abstract

For downloading the full-text of this article please click here. Background and Objectives: According to the reduction of consumption age in cigarette smoking and tobacco and physical and social harms of this phenomenon, prompted the researcher to study and carry out this investigation in order to assess the effect of metacognitive beliefs and religious attitude on the tendency to cigarette use in male adolescents. Materials and Methods: This study is descriptive and correlative. The statistic population consisted of all of the male high school's students of the city of Mehran in the academic year 2014, which according to the statistic of the education department of the city were 502 people. The sample of 217 persons was calculated based on Kokran formula and was selected by cluster sampling. In this study ultra-cognitive questionnaire (MCQ), Alport's 21-items questionnaire to measure religious attitudes, and the researcher's 23-items questionnaire of tendency to cigarette smoking were used. The data were analyzed using spss software. Results: The results showed that there is a meaningful and inverted relation between negative beliefs about uncontrollable and dangerous of concern and cognitive self-consciousness with tendency to cigarette smoking (p<0/05), and also there is a meaningful and inverted relation between external religious attitude and general religious attitude with tendency to cigarette smoking (p<0/05). Also the results of the investigation showed that the components of metacognitive beliefs (R=0/32) and external religious attitude (R=0/35) have a highest ability in predicting the tendency to cigarette smoking in students, respectively (p<0/05). Conclusion: Due to demonstration the influence of meta cognitive beliefs and religious attitude on the reduction of tendency to cigarette smoking in the students, it is recommended that strengthens religious beliefs by holding classes and question-answer sessions, as well as advisory classes in school programs in order to strengthen cognitive self-awareness and decline negative thoughts to reduction the tendency to cigarette smoking among students. Keywords: Metacognitive beliefs, religious attitudes, tendency to cigarette smoking, student For downloading the full-text of this article please click here.