[[alternative]]A six years follow up survey research on elementary school students'smoking intention

[[abstract]]For the students within the fourth grade of the elementary school to the third grade of the junior high school, the fifth grade of elementary and the first grade of junior high are the ages at which the students are likely to have their first experience in smoking cigarette. This research is conducted in order to understand and diagnose the change of the students' beliefs, attitudes, subjective norms, and intention of smoking, and the relationship between these variables. This work has also overcome the limitations of the cross-section method used by the previous research papers. Started in 1992, 331 boy students in the fourth grade of elementary were adopted as investigated subjects based on Theory of Reasoned Action, and the whole survey has been done for six years. For the students from the fourth grade of elementary school to the third grade of junior high, the results indicate：1.The percent increases as the grade increases is as follow：(1). The subjects who have friends who are smokers. (2). The number of students which has smoking experience and the number of the present smokers(3) .The students have their first experience in smoking (4). The students have the intention to smoke within a week and during the summer vacation(5). The individual correlation and multiple-correlation value of the attitude toward smoking, the subject norm, and the smoking intention within a week and during summer vacation.(6). The subjects with neutral subjective norm about smoking(7) The subjects who are with the outcomes belief and the evaluation of outcomes tend to be neutral on the psychological level.(8) The subjects who are aware that his friends expect him to smoke, or they bear neutral attitude toward his smoking cigarette.(9) The number of the difference of the outcomes belief and the evaluation of the outcomes between the intenders and non-intenders to smoke within a week in the psychological level.2. The percent decreases as the grade increases is as follow：(1)The number of the subjects which hold negative attitude toward smoking.(2)The number for those who do not smoke owing to the expectation of their objects of reference.3. Which has reached the statistics significant correlation is as follow：(1) The individual correlation and multiple-correlation of the attitude toward smoking, the subject norm, and the smoking intention within a week and during summer vacation.(2) The attitude towards smoking versus "the sum of the belief for the possible outcomes of smoking times the evaluation to these outcomes" (3) The subjective norm versus "the sum of the belief of the objects of reference if the subjects should smoke times motivation of the subjects to comply".The change of development of the smoking beliefs is as follows：limited to the physical level in the fourth elementary; physical, social, and psychological level in the fifth grade of elementary to the first grade of junior high; physical and psychological level in the second to the third junior high。The fifth grade of elementary and the first grade of junior high are the important stages for the change of the norm belief. After the first grade of junior high, the development of the objects of reference goes steadily and slowly. Father, mother, friends and teacher are the major object of reference; Among these, father and mother are always in the first priority。At last, the research aims to discuss the results and thus provide some practical suggestions for smoking education.