The Association of Social Desirability and Social Intelligence with Smoking among Undergraduates

摘要

Our aim was to examine the inter-relationship between smoking, social intelligence and social desirability in undergraduate students. The present study sample consisted of 200 first year undergraduate students. The questionnaire included information about socio-demographic factors, smoking, anxiety, stress, depression, social intelligence (Troms? Social Intelligence Scale - TSIS) and social desirability (Marlowe–Crowne Social Desirability Scale short form C). In the whole study groups, smoking status was correlated with gender ( P<0.05 ), anxiety level ( P<0.05 ), levels of social information ( P<0.05 ) and levels of social skills ( P<0.0001 ). Smokers were mainly males than females ( P<0.05 ) and revealed higher values of self-reported anxiety ( P<0.05 ), levels of social information ( P<0.05 ) and social skills ( P<0.0001 ) than non-smokers. Among males, smokers revealed lower values of self-reported depression compared with non-smokers ( P<0.05 ). Among girls, smokers presented higher values of anxiety ( P<0.05 ), depression ( P<0.01 ), social skills ( P<0.0001 ) and social information processing ( P<0.05 ). In the whole group, multiple regression analyses models demonstrated significant contributions of social skills ( P<0.0001 ) and social awareness ( P = 0.002 ) to smoking status. Among males, multiple regression analyses demonstrated significant contributions of anxiety ( P<0.05 ), depression ( P = 0.003 ), social awareness ( P = 0.005 ) social skills ( P<0.05 ) and social desirability ( P = 0.05 ) to current smoking status. Among females, significant contributions of depression ( P<0.05 ) and social skills ( P<0.0001 ) to smoking status were revealed. We can conclude that our research found important inter-relations between social desirability and social intelligence subscales to smoking status.