Proceedings of the First Brawijaya International Conference on Social and Political Sciences, BSPACE, 26-28 November, 2019, Malang, East Java, Indonesia

Research Article

Factors That Affect Women’s Tendency to Smoking

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  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/eai.26-11-2019.2295168,
        author={Tafiprios  Tafiprios and N K Fajrin},
        title={ Factors That Affect Women’s Tendency to Smoking },
        proceedings={Proceedings of the First Brawijaya International Conference on Social and Political Sciences, BSPACE, 26-28 November, 2019, Malang, East Java, Indonesia},
        publisher={EAI},
        proceedings_a={B-SPACE},
        year={2020},
        month={5},
        keywords={social environment stress level behaviour women’s tendency to smoking},
        doi={10.4108/eai.26-11-2019.2295168}
    }
    
  • Tafiprios Tafiprios
    N K Fajrin
    Year: 2020
    Factors That Affect Women’s Tendency to Smoking
    B-SPACE
    EAI
    DOI: 10.4108/eai.26-11-2019.2295168
Tafiprios Tafiprios1,*, N K Fajrin1
  • 1: Universitas Mercu Buana
*Contact email: tafiprios@mercubuana.ac.id

Abstract

The purpose of the study is to investigate the important factors that affect the tendency of women’s smoking behavior. The data showed that female smoker in Indonesia increased from time to time. Three independent variables were selected in this research these are Social Environment, Stress Level, and Behavior. One hundred and sixty respondents involved on this study, all the respondents were women who actively smoking. Data collection methods in this study used questionnaire and the sampling method used convenience sampling. The Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) is used to analyze the data by using statistics application Lisrel. The study revealed that social environment and behavior are significantly affect the women's tendency to smoking and stress level has no significantly affect the women's tendency to smoking.