THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PERCEPTIONS ABOUT CONSUMING CIGARETTES WITH THE INTENTION OF SMOKING IN ADOLESCENTS AT UPT SMPN 1 BANGSAL KABUPATEN MOJOKERTO

Abstract

Adolescence is particularly vulnerable affected of the temptations and risks from the adult world, where on cognitively and emotional the adolescents are not ready to handle it effectively, so causing adolescents to get stuck in unhealthy behaviors for example smoking. A good sense of confidence and a good or positive perception of teenagers will not inflict a desire to smoke.Having a desire (intention) of smoking is a major predictor of the smoking behavior. The things come from their experience of socializing.The adolescent experience gained will inflict to the correct perception or false perception about the use of cigarettes, so inflict a desire to smoke. The research purpose is to know the relationship between perceptions about consuming cigarettes with the intention of smoking in adolescents. The research design is analytic correlational with cross-sectional. The research subject is adolescents in 13-15 years old. It was taken with systematic random sampling method with a sample amount of 21 respondents. The data analysis used to the Spearman rho test. The analysis result on perception variable about consuming cigarette obtained significance value 0.026 and Exp(r) 0.484. The value of such significance is less thanα < 0.05. Thus it can be concluded that H0 is rejected, and H1 is accepted and from the resulting test of sperman rho shows that perceptions have a more powerful influence on smoking intention. There is a perception relation about consuming cigarette with the intention of smoking in adolescents in SMPN 1 Bangsal Mojokerto with a more influential factor is perception.