Can emotional intelligence training cause a cease in tobacco smoking among school-going adolescents?

Figures & data

Table 1. Summary T-test of paired sample pre-test and post-test tobacco smoking scores in managing tobacco smoking of participants exposed to EIT

Test	N	Mean	Std. Deviation	t	Sig. (2-tailed)
Pre-Test Post-test	45 45	33.13 21.25	9.94 2.68	12.57	0.000

P value is significant at 0.05 levels

Table 2. Summary of mean and standard deviation in tobacco smoking scores of school-going adolescents exposed to EIT and those in the control group at post-test

Treatment Group	N	Mean	Std. Deviation	Sig.
Experimental	45	21.25	2.68	0.000
Control	45	42.79	14.21

P value is significant at 0.05 levels

Figure 1. Graph showing the interaction effect between treatment and sex

Table 3. Summary of ANCOVA of Post-test score on the tobacco smoking of the participants

Source	Type III Sum of Squares	df	Mean Square	F	Sig.
Corrected Model	42,990.139a	4	10,747.535	286.961	0.000
Intercept	955.280	1	955.280	25.506	0.000
Pre-Test	15,492.558	1	15,492.558	413.654	0.000
Treatment	11,471.358	1	5735.679	306.287	0.000
Sex	27.652	1	27.652	.738	.391
Treatment * Sex	149.613	1	149.613	3.995	.047
Error	8651.636	88	37.453
Total	292,219.000	96
Corrected Total	51,641.775	95

R Squared = .832 (Adjusted R Squared = .830); P value is significant at 0.05 levels

Availability of data and materials

The data used in this work is not available publicly but could be provided by the author on reasonable request.