Abstract

AFONSO, Fernanda  and  PEREIRA, M. Graça. Preditores da dependência nicotínica e do comportamento planeado para deixar de fumar. Aná. Psicológica [online]. 2013, vol.31, n.1, pp.17-29. ISSN 0870-8231.

This study analyzed the predictors of smoking dependence and study how tobacco representations contribute to socio-cognitives variables in smoking cessation. Participated in the study 224 smokers. Being younger, male, having a respiratory disease, smoke more cigarettes per day, having a partner who smokes, having less mental quality of life and more psychological morbidity were predictors of higher nicotine dependence. On the other hand, the variables that predicted intention were being older, less comprehensibility towards smoking, more threatening emotional representations and having a nonsmoker partner; attitudes towards behavior were predicted by less comprehensibility towards smoking, more threatening cognitive representations and having a non-smoker partner; being older, more threatening emotional and cognitive representations and having a non-smoker partner predicted behavioral beliefs; more threatening emotional representations and having a non-smoker partner predicted subjective norms; less threatening cognitive representations and having a non-smoker partner predicted perceived behavioral control; being older, having a non-smoker partner, more threatening emotional representations predicted normative/control beliefs. More threatening emotional and cognitive representations and being male predicted coping/action planning. This study emphasizes the importance of tobacco representations in quit smoking programs.

Keywords : Nicotine dependence; Theory of planned behavior; Tobacco representations.

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