Social connectedness, emotional regulation, and life stressors in smokers and non-smokers university women
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2023
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UMT, Lahore
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This research investigates the association between social connectivity, emotional regulation, life stresses, and smoking behaviour among female university students. The current study investigates the impact of the characteristics on female smoker and non-smokers. The current is the quantitative research. The data was collected from universities in Lahore, Pakistan. Purposive sampling was used to to collect data from (n=200) female students aged 18 to 26. Among the total 200 participants 100 were smokers and 100 were non-smokers. Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support (Zimet et al., 1998), DERS (Gratz & Roemer, 2004), and Life Stressors scale (Shaheen & Farukh 2021) were administered to study variables. Pearson correlation was used in the research. Results of Pearson correlation shows that there is no relationship between social connectivity and smoking behaviour, emotional regulation mechanisms are associated with smoking behaviour. Life stressors in females were found to be significantly related to smoking. However, when considering factors such as social connections, emotional regulation, and life stress, the differences in smoking frequency among various groups appear to be relatively insignificant. These findings have significance for mental health practitioners, educators, and legislators, pointing the need for female university students to have specialized smoking prevention and intervention programmes.