TY - JOUR
T1 - Investigating the big five personality factors and smoking
T2 - Implications for assessment
AU - Shadel, William G.
AU - Cervone, Daniel
AU - Niaura, Raymond
AU - Abrams, David B.
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was supported by R01 CA 081291 from the National Cancer Institute and by a grant from the Executive Committee on Research, Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Brown Medical School. The authors thank Jennifer Wear George, Santina Ficara, and Megan Dombloski for their assistance in executing the procedures of this research.
PY - 2004/9
Y1 - 2004/9
N2 - Global personality dispositions may be important for understanding population-based individual differences in smoking outcomes, yet few studies have been executed using measures of these global dispositional constructs from the contemporary field of personality. This study explored whether the Big Five personality factors (Extraversion, Neuroticism, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, and Intellect) were concurrently associated with key smoking (e.g., nicotine dependence, smoking rate, age at first cigarette) and cessation (e.g., self-efficacy to quit, motivation to quit, number of prior quit attempts, length of most recent quit) variables in a sample of regular smokers (n = 130). Of the 35 correlations computed, only 2 were significant: Intellect was positively correlated with motivation to quit and number of 24-hr quit attempts in the last year. These results have implications for using trait variables to study individual differences in smokers.
AB - Global personality dispositions may be important for understanding population-based individual differences in smoking outcomes, yet few studies have been executed using measures of these global dispositional constructs from the contemporary field of personality. This study explored whether the Big Five personality factors (Extraversion, Neuroticism, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, and Intellect) were concurrently associated with key smoking (e.g., nicotine dependence, smoking rate, age at first cigarette) and cessation (e.g., self-efficacy to quit, motivation to quit, number of prior quit attempts, length of most recent quit) variables in a sample of regular smokers (n = 130). Of the 35 correlations computed, only 2 were significant: Intellect was positively correlated with motivation to quit and number of 24-hr quit attempts in the last year. These results have implications for using trait variables to study individual differences in smokers.
KW - Five factor models
KW - Nicotine dependence
KW - Personality
KW - Smoking
KW - Traits
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U2 - 10.1023/B:JOBA.0000022111.13381.0c
DO - 10.1023/B:JOBA.0000022111.13381.0c
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:3543041819
SN - 0882-2689
VL - 26
SP - 185
EP - 191
JO - Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment
JF - Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment
IS - 3
ER -