Effect of self-efficacy and smoking rationalization tendency in the association of physical activity and smoking cessation be-liefs among college students
Objective To explore the roles of self-efficacy and smoking rationalization tendency in the relationship between col-lege students'physical activity and smoking cessation beliefs,in order to provide a basis for the positive effects of college students'physical activity on smoking cessation beliefs.Methods From May 6 to 23 in 2023,3 048 students from 10 colleges in Jiangxi Province were recruited and surveyed using the Physical Activity Participation Scale,the Smoking Cessation Self-efficacy Scale,the Smoking Rationalization Tendency Scale and the Smoking Cessation Belief Scale.The Harman one-way test was adopted for common method bias test.Bias correction was unfolded by Bootstrap method,and 95％confidence intervals of parameter estimates were ana-lyzed using repeated sampling 5 000 times.Results The results of the sequential mediation model analysis showed that physical activity was positively associated with college students'beliefs about smoking cessation(β=0.17),and physical activity,self-effica-cy and smoking rationalization tendency were positively associated with each other(β=0.41,0.08,0.19)(P＜0.05).Both self-effi-cacy and smoking rationalization tendency positively predicted smoking cessation beliefs(β=0.19,0.17,P＜0.01).Self-efficacy and smoking rationalization tendency mediated the relationship between physical activity and smoking cessation beliefs,with a medi-ating effect value of 0.09,accounting for 62.82％of the total effect value(0.15).Conclusions Self-efficacy and smoking rationali-zation tendency have a serial mediating effect between physical activity and smoking cessation beliefs among college students.Inter-ventions should be actively used to enhance college students'beliefs about smoking cessation,promote smoking cessation behaviors.
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