The Relation between Social Cohesion and Smoking Cessation among Black Smokers, and the Potential Role of Psychosocial Mediators

Autor: Darla E. Kendzor, Yisheng Li, Jasjit S. Ahluwalia, Lorraine R. Reitzel, Yessenia Castro, Yumei Cao, Carlos A. Mazas, Michael S. Businelle, David W. Wetter, Paul M. Cinciripini, Ludmila M Cofta-Woerpel
Rok vydání: 2012
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Zdroj: Annals of Behavioral Medicine. 45:249-257
ISSN: 1532-4796
0883-6612
DOI: 10.1007/s12160-012-9438-6
Popis: Social cohesion, the self-reported trust and connectedness between neighbors, may affect health behaviors via psychosocial mechanisms. Relations between individual perceptions of social cohesion and smoking cessation were examined among 397 Black treatment-seeking smokers. Continuation ratio logit models examined the relation of social cohesion and biochemically verified continuous smoking abstinence through 6 months post-quit. Indirect effects were examined in single mediator models using a nonparametric bootstrapping procedure. All analyses controlled for sociodemographics, tobacco dependence, and treatment. The total effect of social cohesion on continuous abstinence was non-significant (β = 0.05, p = 0.10). However, social cohesion was associated with social support, positive affect, negative affect, and stress, which, in turn, were each associated with abstinence in adjusted models (ps
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