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HEALTH AND WELL-BEING OF INTERNATIONAL STUDENTSa day also give a rating of 2 or 3 on item B19. Of the 46 least frequent smokers, 16feel their smoking is nevertheless a problem.It is interesting to compare the students’ perceptions of these four areas of healthrelatedbehaviour: drugs, alcohol, gambling and smoking. Table 68 presents students’perceptions of change and problems in relation to each of these behaviours. Thiscomparison shows that smoking is the only area in which the percentage increase inthe behaviour is parallelled by the percentage perceiving a problem to exist.Table 68Student perceptions of four types of health-related behaviourPercentage responsesType ofNo increase Some increase No problem Some problembehaviour(Rating of 0) (Rating of 1, 2 or 3) (Rating of 0) (Rating of 1, 2 or 3)Drugs 94.6 5.4 97.2 2.8Alcohol 74.3 25.7 93.2 6.8Gambling 94.1 5.9 97.0 3.0Smoking 91.6 8.4 91.9 8.1The three items concerning smoking and the two items measuring students’perceptions of gambling (items D28 and D26) inter-correlate significantly. Togetherthey form a scale, the Perceptions of Gambling and Smoking scale, which has a meanscore of 0.11, a range of 0 to 2.8, and a standard deviation of .33.Only two demographic variables differentiate significantly among students in terms oftheir scores on this scale. Male students have significantly higher scores on the scalethan female students 307 . There is also a significant main effect for academic progresson perceived gambling and smoking 308 . Students who perceive their academicprogress to be worse than expected have the highest score and those doing as well asexpected have the lowest.The Perceptions of Gambling and Smoking scale correlates significantly with fourother scales. It correlates negatively with the Connectedness scale 309 ; the stronger thestudent’s sense of connectedness, the lower the perceived gambling and smoking. Itcorrelates strongly, significantly and positively with the Perceptions of Drug Usescale 310 , and the Perceptions of Alcohol Use scale 311 and to a smaller but stillsignificant extent with the Cultural Stress 312 , Depression 313 , Anxiety 314 and Stress 315scales.307 t=3.24, 541.1 df, p
HEALTH AND WELL-BEING OF INTERNATIONAL STUDENTSA multiple linear regression analysis, using these six statistically significant variablesproduced a model that predicts the Perceptions of Gambling and Smoking scalesignificantly (F(4,934)=89.54, p
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