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ABSTRACT
Background
Personal and environmental factors can affect smoking behavior. Understanding the relationships between personal and environmental factors with smoking behavior can provide valuable insights into creating smoking prevention interventions in students. The purpose of the current study was to explore the relationship between demographics, smoking behavior, personal and environmental factors
Methods
This cross-sectional study was performed on 300 male high school students in Tehran using multi-stage sampling. The researcher-made questionnaire was used in two sections, including demographic, personal factors, environmental factors, and smoking behavior. The structural equation modeling (SEM) was also used to examine the relationships between variables.
Results
SEM results showed that the direct path of environmental factors on smoking behavior (β = – 0.42, P < .05) and the direct path of personal factors on smoking behavior (β = – 0.11, P < .01) were significant.
Conclusions
The results of this study showed that among the questions of personal and environmental factors, “smoking reduces the ability to work and do the physical activity” and “access to smoking” had the most significant effect on forming personal and environmental factors, respectively. Therefore, it can be concluded that these two questions also affected smoking behavior.
Disclosure statement
The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.