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Cue-Evoked Positive Affect, Depression Vulnerability and Smoking Years

Year: 2009

Type: article

Abstract: OBJECTIVES: To evaluate whether cue-evoked affective response would moderate the relationship between depression-proneness and smoking years. METHODS: Depression-proneness profiles were derived using clinician diagnosed personal and family histories of major depression, recurrent depression, trait-anhedonia, and ruminative coping styles (n=70). Affective distress was produced by idiographic, guided negative mood imageries in the presence of an in vivo cigarette exposure. RESULTS: Contrary to expectations, results showed that individuals less vulnerable to depression reported longer smoking histories. Stress-induced decreases in positive affect bolstered the association between depression vulnerability and smoking years. CONCLUSION: Depression-proneness assumptions are challenged and implications to affective influences on smoking behavior are discussed.

Source: American Journal of Health Behavior

DOI: 10.5993/ajhb.33.1.5

Author: Dennis McChargue

Institution: University of Nebraska–Lincoln

Language: English

Topic: Smoking Behavior and Cessation

Subfield: Physiology (medical)

Field: Medicine

Domain: Health Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: green

Funders: American Heart Association, National Institutes of Health, National Institute on Drug Abuse