Social Networks and Smoking Choices among Chinese Undergraduate Students

This dataset is based on original survey data from 224 Chinese undergraduate students who are studying in China and the UK. This dataset is to explore how UK-based and China-based Chinese students’ smoking behaviours are affected by their social networks, particularly their friends and family members, to address an empirical gap by testing the validity of three social network mechanisms: person-to-person contact, social support, and social stress, and to identify how studying abroad influences smoking behaviours by comparing these smoking behaviours for Chinese students in China.

本数据集基于224名在中英两国就读的中国本科生的原始调研数据构建，旨在探究在英与在华求学的中国学生的吸烟行为如何受其社交网络——尤其是亲友群体——的影响；通过检验人际接触（person-to-person contact）、社会支持（social support）与社会压力（social stress）三类社交网络机制的有效性填补相关实证研究空白，并通过与在华中国学生的吸烟行为进行对比，明确留学经历对吸烟行为的影响。