Type
Article
Keywords
Cigarette smoking, Outcome expectancies, Emotional vulnerability, Negative affectivity, Emotional dysregulation, Anxiety sensitivity
Abstract
The present investigation examined whether smoking outcome expectancies, as measured by the Smoking Consequences Questionnaire (SCQ; [Brandon, T.H., & Baker, T.B., (1991). The Smoking Consequences Questionnaire: The subjective expected utility of smoking in college students. Psychological Assessment, 3, 484–491.]), were incrementally related to emotional vulnerability factors among an adult sample of 202 daily cigarette smokers (44.6% women; Mage= 23.78 years, SD = 9.69 years). After controlling for cigarettes smoked/day, past 30-day marijuana use, current alcohol consumption, and coping style, negative reinforcement/negative affect reduction outcome expectancies were significantly associated with greater levels of negative affectivity, emotional dysregulation, and anxiety sensitivity. The observed effects for negative reinforcement/negative affect reduction also were independent of shared variance with other outcome expectancies. Negative personal consequences outcome expectancies were significantly and incrementally related to anxiety sensitivity, but not negative affectivity or emotional dysregulation. Findings are discussed in terms of the role of negative reinforcement/ negative affect reduction smoking outcome expectancies and clinically-relevant negative emotional vulnerability for better understanding cigarette smoking-negative mood problems
Language
English
Department(s)
Psychology
Journal or Book Title
Addictive Behaviors
Publication Year
2008
DOI
10.1016/j.addbeh.2008.05.001
Publisher
Elsevier
Rights Management
Carleton College does not own the copyright to this work and the work is available through the Carleton College Library following the original publisher policies regarding self-archiving. For more information on the copyright status of this work, refer to the current copyright holder.
RoMEO Color
Green
Preprint Archiving
Yes (with link to journal home page)
Postprint Archiving
Yes
Publisher PDF Archiving
No
Paid OA Option
Yes
Contributing Organization
Carleton College
Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Johnson, K. A., Zvolensky, M. J., Marshall, E. C., Gonzalez, A., Abrams, K., & Vujanovic, A. A. (2008). Linkages between Cigarette Smoking Outcome Expectancies and Negative Emotional Vulnerability. Addictive Behaviors, 33, 1416-1424. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.addbeh.2008.05.001. Accessed via Faculty Work. Psychology. Carleton Digital Commons. https://digitalcommons.carleton.edu/psyc_faculty/6
The definitive version is available at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.addbeh.2008.05.001
