Regret and rationalization among smokers in Thailand and Malaysia: Findings from the International Tobacco Control Southeast Asia Survey
| Autor: | Ron Borland, Mark P. Zanna, Buppha Sirirassamee, Geoffrey T. Fong, Wonkyong Beth Lee, Maizurah Omar |
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| Rok vydání: | 2009 |
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Adult
Cross-Cultural Comparison Male Adolescent Social Values International Cooperation medicine.medical_treatment Emotions Public Policy Smoking Prevention Intention Social value orientations Cohort Studies Young Adult Asian People medicine Humans Applied Psychology Rationalization Smoking Tobacco control Malaysia Social environment Regret Social Control Informal Middle Aged Thailand Mental health Cross-cultural studies Psychiatry and Mental health behavior and behavior mechanisms Smoking cessation Female Smoking Cessation Psychology Social psychology Social control Demography |
| Zdroj: | Health Psychology. 28:457-464 |
| ISSN: | 1930-7810 0278-6133 |
| DOI: | 10.1037/a0014669 |
| Popis: | Objective: To test whether differences of history and strength in tobacco control policies will influencesocial norms, which, in turn, will influence quit intentions, by influencing smokers regret and rational-ization. Design: The data were from the International Tobacco Control (ITC) Policy EvaluationSoutheast Asia Survey, a cohort survey of representative samples of adult smokers in Thailand ( N 2,000) and Malaysia ( N 2,006). The survey used a stratified multistage sampling design. MainOutcome Measures: Measures included regret, rationalization, social norms, and quit intention. Results:Thai smokers were more likely to have quit intentions than Malaysian smokers. This difference in quitintentions was, in part, explained by the country differences in social norms, regret, and rationalization.Reflecting Thailands history of stronger tobacco control policies, Thai smokers, compared withMalaysian smokers, perceived more negative social norms toward smoking, were more likely to regret,and less likely to rationalize smoking. Mediational analyses revealed that these differences in socialnorms, accounted, in part, for the country-quit intention relation and that regret and rationalizationaccounted, in part, for the social norm-quit intention relation. Conclusion: The results suggest that socialnorms toward smoking, which are shaped by tobacco control policies, and smokers regret and ratio-nalization influence quit intentions.Keywords: smoking, regret, rationalization, social norms |
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