The study was designed to explore the relations between anger, coping styles, and the amount of cigarette smoking among adolescents at smoking cessation program. Participants were 97 adolescents at smoking cessation program wilh a mean age of 16.58 years. Participants responded with the Korean adaptation of the State-Trait Anger Expression Scale (Chon, T-Tahn, & Lee, 1998), the multidimensional coping scale (Chon, 10m, Cho, Ho, & Sohn, 1994), and the amount of cigarette smoking. The major findings included: (1) Significant differences were found for state anger and anger-out before and after the smoking cessation program; (2) There was also significant difference before and after the smokimg cessation program for the amount of cigarette smoking; (3) When comparisons were made between adolescents at smoking cessation program (N 97) and adolescents at regular school (N 241), the fomer revealed higher scores for emotional expression, active forgetting, fatalism, practical social support seeking, and emotional social support seeking.
On the other hand, adolescents at smoking cessation program compared to adolescents at regular school showed lower scores for active coping, perseverance, emotional pacification. The present findings were discussed with other studies, and implications for future studies are suggested.