Negative affect combines with smoking outcome expectancies to predict smoking behavior over time.

Full Abstract

The present study examined whether the tendency to experience negative affective states combines with smoking outcome expectancies to predict smoking behavior over time. Participants were 121 young adults and resource people recruited from 3 alcohol and drug treatment programs and through community advertisements. Each participant completed 3 interviews over a 4-year period. Results indicated that dispositional negative affect and positive smoking expectancies were significantly correlated with smoking behavior both within and across time. Expectations of positive and negative reinforcement partially mediated negative affect's relation with smoking across time. Positive expectancies did not function as a moderator of negative affect's relation with smoking behavior. These results represent an important step in incorporating smoking outcome expectancies into multivariate models of smoking risk.

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Author information

Author/s: Cohen, Lee M (LM); McCarthy, Denis M (DM); Brown, Sandra A (SA); Myers, Mark G (MG);

Affiliation: Department of Psychology, Texas Tech University, Lubbock 79409-2051, USA.

Grants: R01 AA07033 (Agency:NIAAA NIH HHS)

Journal and publication information

Publication Type: Comparative Study; Journal Article; Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

Journal: Psychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors (Psychol Addict Behav), published in United States. (Language: eng)

Reference: 2002-Jun; vol 16 (issue 2) : pp 91-7

Dates: Created 2002/06/24; Completed 2002/08/07; Revised 2007/11/14;

PMID: 12079260, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 12/26/2008)

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MeSH headings (categories)

This article was linked to the MESH Headings shown below.

Adolescent
Adult
Affect
Behavior, Addictive - prevention & control; psychology
Female
Follow-Up Studies
Humans

Humans
Interview, Psychological
Male
Reinforcement (Psychology)
Sampling Studies
Smoking - prevention & control; psychology
Time Factors

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