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Tea Drinking Attitude and Tea Addiction Symptoms among Kenyans

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  • Joyzy Pius Egunjobi, Ph.D., Dr.AD

    (Psycho-Spiritual Institute (an affiliate of the Catholic University of Eastern Africa))

  • Stephen Asatsa, Ph.D

    (Department of Counseling Psychology, Catholic University of Eastern Africa, Kenya)

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Kenyans are known to consume lots of tea. This study investigated Kenyans’ tea drinking attitude and the possible traces of tea addiction. A correlation design was employed by using an online questionnaire to obtain information from 335 respondents who participated through voluntary sampling. The data were analyzed using descriptive inferential statistics. It was found that majority of Kenyans (95.3%) are tea drinkers with about 76.4% moderately consuming 1 to 3 cups of tea daily in the morning hours. There was no gender disparity in tea consumption. Addiction symptoms were experienced by 41% of Kenyan tea drinkers who experienced withdrawal symptoms such headache, tiredness, and disorientation, 49.1% craving for tea, 16.5% unable to stop drinking tea, and 36.9% feel stimulated by drinking tea. There was a significant positive correlation between the number of teacups consumed per day and addiction symptoms at Pearson correlation coefficient r (335) = .355, p

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  • Joyzy Pius Egunjobi, Ph.D., Dr.AD & Stephen Asatsa, Ph.D, 2022. "Tea Drinking Attitude and Tea Addiction Symptoms among Kenyans," International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science, International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science (IJRISS), vol. 6(5), pages 42-46, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:bcp:journl:v:6:y:2022:i:5:p:42-46
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