Variances in Smoking Expectancies Predict Moment-to-Moment Smoking Behaviors in Everyday Life.

Autor: Halliday DM; Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, USA. deanna.halliday@ucsf.edu., Zawadzki MJ; Department of Psychological Sciences, University of California, Merced, Merced, USA.; Nicotine and Cannabis Policy Center, University of California, Merced, Merced, USA., Song AV; Department of Psychological Sciences, University of California, Merced, Merced, USA.; Nicotine and Cannabis Policy Center, University of California, Merced, Merced, USA.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: International journal of behavioral medicine [Int J Behav Med] 2024 Apr 03. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Apr 03.
DOI: 10.1007/s12529-024-10276-4
Abstrakt: Background: Many policy decisions about tobacco control are predicated on rational choice models, which posit (1) that smokers are aware of the risks of cigarettes and (2) that perceived risks have a consistent influence on continued smoking behavior. However, research shows that beliefs about smoking may be vulnerable to changes in internal and external contexts.
Methods: Using ecological momentary assessment, we tested this by measuring how smokers' (N = 52) beliefs about smoking varied over time. Four times per day over 1 week, participants responded to measures of smoking intentions, risk perceptions, mood and social outcome expectancies, and internal and external contextual factors.
Results: We analyzed this data using multilevel modeling, finding that both smoking intentions, risk perceptions, and expectancies differed between participants as well as between moments.
Conclusion: Risk perceptions and mood expectancies were a significant predictor of intentions to smoke in the next 30 min, illustrating the importance of these beliefs in decisional processes. This study was preregistered at the Open Science Foundation: https://osf.io/wmv3s/?view_only=71ad66d3ce3845fcb3bf2b9860d820c9 . Our analytic plan was not preregistered.
(© 2024. The Author(s).)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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