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Personality, Attitude and Smoking Habits among Male Students in Sekolah<br />

Menengah Kebangsaan Sik<br />

Nurul Farhana binti Mohd Aziz<br />

Supervisor: Dr. Nor Fazliyaton bt Ramley<br />

Bachelor of Counseling<br />

School of Social and Economic Development<br />

A study was conducted to examine the relationship between personality and attitude<br />

with smoking habits among students in Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan Sik, Kedah.<br />

The objective of this study was to identify the relationship between personality’s traits,<br />

attitudes on cigarettes and on smoking cessation and smoking habits among male<br />

students. Apart from that, 144 respondents of 13 to 17 years old were involved in this<br />

study. Furthermore, The Big Five Inventory (BFI) questionnaires developed by John<br />

Donahue and Kentle (1991), the Global Youth Tobacco Survey by the World Health<br />

Organization (WHO) and the Ministry of Health Malaysia (MOH) (2009) were used as<br />

the quantitative methods in carrying out the study. The data collected will be analyzed<br />

using the Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) version 25.0 version computer<br />

software. Pearson correlation and t- test are used to analyze the data.<br />

1331 | UMT UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH DAY 2018

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