THE EFFECT OF THE POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGICAL CAPITAL PROGRAM ON SMOKING CESSATION OF THE CONSCRIPTS
Keywords:
positive psychological capital, smoking cessation, conscriptAbstract
This quasi-experimental research aimed to study the effect of the positive psychological capital program on smoking cessation in conscripts. Sixty participants who were new corpsmen and military police were selected based on inclusion criteria. The experiment group (n = 30) participated in the program eight times in eight weeks, while the control group (n = 30) received knowledge related to positive psychological capital for quitting smoking from notice boards. The comparison of the effect of the positive psychological capital program on smoking cessation between these groups was done before and after the experiment on the seventh day and at one month. Measurement tools in this research consisted of a program and a questionnaire of positive psychological capital on smoking cessation. These tools were tested for content validity through expert judgment with the value of .92 and .96, respectively. Moreover, the questionnaire was validated its reliability through Cronbach’s alpha Coefficient, which equals .88. The frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation, paired t-test, and independent t-test were applied for statistical analysis.
The results revealed that after seven days and one month, the participants in the experiment and control groups had a statistically significant difference of mean scores of psychological capital and its four dimensions, including self-efficacy, hope, optimism, and resiliency (p = .00), in which the mean score of positive psychological capital on smoking cessation and the mean score of self-efficacy, hope, optimism, and resiliency in the experiment group were increased after seven days and one month comparing to the baseline score (p = .00). It would suggest proposing the psychological capital program on smoking cessation to be used as a tool for smoking cessation in other military services.
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