title: Depressive mood and tobacco use: moderating effects of gender and emotional attention.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Depressive symptomatology is a predictive variable of tobacco use. The objective of the present study was to evaluate the influence that this symptomatology has on tobacco use when moderated by emotional attention.
  
  
  METHODS
  A total of 289 participants (127 males, 162 females) completed a survey to measure perceived emotional intelligence, depressive symptomatology, tobacco use and sociodemographic variables. Results were analyzed using a multiple regression model that included self-perceived emotional attention as a moderating variable.
  
  
  RESULTS
  In women, an interaction was found between depressive symptomatology and gender for predicting the number of cigarettes smoked (t=2.45; p=.01), but not in men (t=-.74; p=.45). This interaction was moderated by emotional attention (t=2.83; p=.005), such that women with medium and high levels of attention consumed a larger number of cigarettes.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  In women, the effect of depressive symptomatology on tobacco use was moderated by the amount of attention that women paid to those symptoms. Such a moderating effect of attention was not observed in men. We recommend that smoking cessation programs incorporate interventions designed specifically for women, in particular to help them manage depressive symptomatology.
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Psychology. University of Málaga, Málaga, Spain. jmperea.baena@gmail.com
authors.forename: José M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Perea-Baena
authors.forename: Pablo
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Fernández-Berrocal
authors.forename: Salvador
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Oña-Compan
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001288:Attention / Q000502:physiology; D003863:Depression / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000523:psychology*; D004644:Emotions / Q000502:physiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012737:Sex Factors; D012907:Smoking / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000523:psychology*; D055815:Young Adult