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Comparison of smokers employment status in retention behavior among community in Terengganu

Smoking is one of the behaviors that violates the norms of life because it causes harm to oneself and to the environment. Smoking problems are no longer an unfamiliar behavior for working and non-working people where they have easy access to the material. The purpose of this study was to identify...

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Main Authors: Mohd Syaiful Nizam, Abu Hassan, Mohd Khairul Amri, Kamarudin, Muhammad Salim, Sa'id
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Published: 2020
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spelling my-unisza-ir.73492022-05-30T03:31:03Z http://eprints.unisza.edu.my/7349/ Comparison of smokers employment status in retention behavior among community in Terengganu Mohd Syaiful Nizam, Abu Hassan Mohd Khairul Amri, Kamarudin Muhammad Salim, Sa'id BF Psychology Smoking is one of the behaviors that violates the norms of life because it causes harm to oneself and to the environment. Smoking problems are no longer an unfamiliar behavior for working and non-working people where they have easy access to the material. The purpose of this study was to identify comparisons between working smokers and non-smokers in maintaining smoking behavior. This study uses quantitative techniques for the purpose of obtaining accurate answers from respondents. The respondents of this study were 437 male respondents living in Terengganu state. The analysis used in this study was discriminant analysis. This discriminant analysis aims to control for variables that separate between three or more clusters that are clearly joined. Discriminant Analysis (DA) uses misclassified modes, backward stepwise, and forward stepwise. Standard mode reported 95.88% gain with 21 variables while backward stepwise and forward stepwise recorded 95.19% with 10 variables for backward stepwise and 7 variables for stepwise forward. Some of the significant questions with the number 0.0001 were S1, S2, S4, S6, S9, S13, and S18. The government should play a role in drafting strategies for law enforcement to combat the growing prevalence of smoking. 2020-11 Article PeerReviewed text en http://eprints.unisza.edu.my/7349/1/FH02-FSSG-20-45401.pdf Mohd Syaiful Nizam, Abu Hassan and Mohd Khairul Amri, Kamarudin and Muhammad Salim, Sa'id (2020) Comparison of smokers employment status in retention behavior among community in Terengganu. International Jounal of Mechanical and Production Engineering Research and Development (IJMPERD), 10 (3). pp. 14715-14720. ISSN 2249-6890
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Mohd Syaiful Nizam, Abu Hassan
Mohd Khairul Amri, Kamarudin
Muhammad Salim, Sa'id
Comparison of smokers employment status in retention behavior among community in Terengganu
description Smoking is one of the behaviors that violates the norms of life because it causes harm to oneself and to the environment. Smoking problems are no longer an unfamiliar behavior for working and non-working people where they have easy access to the material. The purpose of this study was to identify comparisons between working smokers and non-smokers in maintaining smoking behavior. This study uses quantitative techniques for the purpose of obtaining accurate answers from respondents. The respondents of this study were 437 male respondents living in Terengganu state. The analysis used in this study was discriminant analysis. This discriminant analysis aims to control for variables that separate between three or more clusters that are clearly joined. Discriminant Analysis (DA) uses misclassified modes, backward stepwise, and forward stepwise. Standard mode reported 95.88% gain with 21 variables while backward stepwise and forward stepwise recorded 95.19% with 10 variables for backward stepwise and 7 variables for stepwise forward. Some of the significant questions with the number 0.0001 were S1, S2, S4, S6, S9, S13, and S18. The government should play a role in drafting strategies for law enforcement to combat the growing prevalence of smoking.
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author Mohd Syaiful Nizam, Abu Hassan
Mohd Khairul Amri, Kamarudin
Muhammad Salim, Sa'id
author_facet Mohd Syaiful Nizam, Abu Hassan
Mohd Khairul Amri, Kamarudin
Muhammad Salim, Sa'id
author_sort Mohd Syaiful Nizam, Abu Hassan
title Comparison of smokers employment status in retention behavior among community in Terengganu
title_short Comparison of smokers employment status in retention behavior among community in Terengganu
title_full Comparison of smokers employment status in retention behavior among community in Terengganu
title_fullStr Comparison of smokers employment status in retention behavior among community in Terengganu
title_full_unstemmed Comparison of smokers employment status in retention behavior among community in Terengganu
title_sort comparison of smokers employment status in retention behavior among community in terengganu
publishDate 2020
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