HUBUNGAN KARAKTERISTIK DAN PENGETAHUAN REMAJA TENTANG ROKOK DENGAN PERILAKU MEROKOK REMAJA DI KULONPROGO YOGYAKARTA

Abstract

Smoking is a habit that can provide pleasure for smokers themselves, but on the other
hand can also cause negative impacts for the smokers themselves and for those around them. A
person exposed to secondhand smoke (passive smokers) for eight hours is proportional to direct
smoking of 20 cigarettes per day. The purpose of this research is to know the correlation of
adolescent characteristic and knowledge about cigarette with teenage smoking behavior in
Kulonprogo Yogyakarta
This research is quantitative by using analytic survey method with cross sectional
approach, as many as 160 teenagers who smoke in Kulonprogo Regency Yogyakarta. Data
collection by using questionnaire and analyzed by using Pearson correlation statistic test.
The results showed that the correlation coefficient between adolescent knowledge about
smoking with teen smoking behavior in Kulonprogo Yogyakarta (-0.205). The correlation coefficient
between adolescent age and teenage smoking behavior in Kulonprogo Yogyakarta amounted to
(0,472) and correlation coefficient between adolescent pocket money and teenage smoking
behavior in Kulonprogo Yogyakarta (0,412).
There is a relationship between adolescent age with teenage smoking behavior in
Kulonprogo Yogyakarta. There is a relationship between adolescent pocket money and teenage
smoking behavior in Kulonprogo Yogyakarta. The higher the adolescent knowledge about
cigarettes then the behavior of adolescent smoking in Kulonprogo Yogyakarta will be lower.