Financial strain and cognitive-based smoking processes: The explanatory role of depressive symptoms among adult daily smokers.
Little work has focused on the underlying mechanisms that may link financial strain and smoking processes. The current study tested the hypothesis that financial strain would exert an indirect effect on cognitive-based smoking processes via depressive symptoms. Three clinically significant dependent variables linked to the maintenance of smoking were evaluated: negative affect reduction motives, negative mood abstinence expectancies, and perceived barriers for quitting. Participants included 102 adult daily smokers (Mage=33.0years, SD=13.60; 35.3% female) recruited from the community to participate in a self-guided (unaided; no psychological or pharmacological intervention) smoking cessation study. Results indicated that depressive symptoms explain, in part, the relation between financial strain and smoking motives for negative affect reduction, negative mood abstinence expectancies, and perceived barriers for quitting. Results indicate that smoking interventions for individuals with high levels of financial strain may potentially benefit from the addition of therapeutic tactics aimed at reducing depression.
Department of Psychology, Roosevelt University, Chicago, IL, United States.
Zuzuky
Z
Robles
Department of Psychology, University of Houston, Houston, TX, United States.
Sahar
S
Anjum
Department of Psychology, University of Houston, Houston, TX, United States.
Lorra
L
Garey
Department of Psychology, University of Houston, Houston, TX, United States.
Brooke Y
BY
Kauffman
Smoking Cessation and Addictive Disorders Unit, Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychobiology, University of Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
Rubén
R
Rodríguez-Cano
Department of Psychiatry, Rhode Island Hospital, Providence, RI, United States.
Kirsten J
KJ
Langdon
Department of Psychology, University of Houston, Houston, TX, United States.
Clayton
C
Neighbors
Department of Psychological, Health & Learning Sciences, Houston, TX, United States.
Lorraine R
LR
Reitzel
Department of Psychology, University of Houston, Houston, TX, United States; Department of Behavioral Sciences, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, United States. Electronic address: mjzvolen@central.uh.edu.
Michael J
MJ
Zvolensky
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D003071:Cognition; D015897:Comorbidity; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009042:Motivation; D012907:Smoking / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000523:psychology; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000191:economics* / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000523:psychology; D013781:Texas / Q000453:epidemiology; D014707:Vermont / Q000453:epidemiology; D055815:Young Adult
Depression; Financial strain; Smoking cessation; Social determinants of health; Treatment