Acat, MuratMemıs, Çagdas ÖyküTuran, Muhammed KamilBenli, Ali RamazanTaşkın, EmreYaşar, ZehraMemıs, Seda Derıcı2024-09-292024-09-2920201300-1779https://doi.org/10.17954/amj.2018.1478https://search.trdizin.gov.tr/tr/yayin/detay/363484https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14619/10441Introduction: Research indicates that social stressors, negative affect, anxiety or depression areassociated with an increased prevalence of smoking in adolescents.Objective: The aim of this study was to determine the smoking prevalence and to find out whetherspending more time on the internet or psychological characteristics like negative automatic thoughtsand thoughts of failure at school affect smoking among adolescents.Material and Methods: A self-administered anonymous sociodemographic questionnaire and theautomatic thoughts questionnaire (ATQ) were administered using a sample of students in grades 9through 12 at eight different public senior high schools in Karabuk, Turkey.A descriptive analysis was made, and the Chi-square and Mann-Whitney U tests were used to comparethe groups.Results: From the 463 participating students aged 14-19 years (43.9% female, 56.1% male), 40(8.7%) had tried smoking or were former smokers and 48 (10.4%) were occasionally or daily smokers.Students with male gender (p<0.001), older age (Z=-5.356; p<0.001), those who had used alcoholbefore (p<0.001), scored higher on the ATQ (Z=-2.065; p=0.039), spent more time on the internet(Z=-3.021; p=0.003), and felt like failing at school (Z=-3.730; p<0.001), and those who had a smokingmother (p<0.001), father (p=0.005), sibling (p=0.018), or close friend (p<0.001), had a higherfrequency of smoking.Conclusion: In order to increase our understanding, future research on smoking in adolescentscould target the psychological basis of smoking behavior.eninfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessArticle10.17954/amj.2018.1478211163634846