Anxiety sensitivity and smoking motives and outcome expectancies among adult daily smokers: replication and extension.
The present investigation examined the incremental validity of anxiety sensitivity in the context of distress intolerance in terms of predicting smoking motives and outcome expectancies. Participants were a community sample of 144 daily smokers (85 women, M (age) = 29.72 years, SD = 11.96). Results indicated that above and beyond discomfort intolerance, Axis I diagnoses, gender, volume of alcohol consumption, and average number of cigarettes smoked per day, anxiety sensitivity significantly incrementally predicted habitual, addictive, and negative affect reduction motives to smoke, as well as negative reinforcement outcome expectancies. No such incremental effects were similarly evident for distress intolerance. Findings are discussed in relation to the role of anxiety sensitivity in smoking motives and outcome expectancies.
Leyro
Teresa M
TM
University of Vermont, Burlington, VT 05405-0134, USA.
Zvolensky
Michael J
MJ
Vujanovic
Anka A
AA
Bernstein
Amit
A
D000328:Adult; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D001007:Anxiety / Q000523:psychology*; D001294:Attitude to Health; D003863:Depression / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D015438:Health Behavior; D006801:Humans; D007389:Internal-External Control; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012008:Recurrence; D012720:Severity of Illness Index; D012907:Smoking / Q000523:psychology*; D016540:Smoking Cessation / Q000523:psychology*; D013375:Substance Withdrawal Syndrome / Q000523:psychology*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires