Assessing attitudinal ambivalence towards smoking and its association with desire to quit among teen smokers
Assessing attitudinal ambivalence towards smoking and its association with desire to quit among teen smokers
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DOI：
10.1080/08870440512331333988
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发表时间：
2005-06-01
影响因子：
3.3
通讯作者：
Bloom, PN
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作者：
Lipkus, IM;Pollak, KI;Bloom, PN
大多数吸烟者对他们的吸烟有一些矛盾的想法和感觉;也就是说，他们感到矛盾。是否可以充分测量感受到的矛盾心理，然后用来预测青少年吸烟者的戒烟欲望，还有待探讨。因此，在402名青少年吸烟者参与戒烟干预，我们首先研究了八项矛盾心理量表的心理测量学特性，通过探索性和验证性分析。剔除一个项目后，量表内部一致，形成单因子。我们还报告了在基线时以及基线后四个月和八个月评估的对吸烟的矛盾心理是否与横断面和前瞻性分析中的戒烟愿望有关。在所有的横断面和前瞻性分析中，感觉越来越矛盾的吸烟者报告了更强烈的戒烟愿望。这些结果表明，矛盾心理可能是一个有用的结构，进一步探索和实验诱导，以评估其对戒烟欲望的影响。
Most smokers have some conflicting thoughts and feelings about their smoking; that is, they feel ambivalent. Whether felt ambivalence can be adequately measured and then used to predict the desire to quit among teen smokers has yet to be explored. Hence, among 402 teen smokers involved in a smoking cessation intervention, we first examined the psychometric properties of an eight-item ambivalence scale via exploratory and confirmatory analyses. After excluding one item, the scale was internally consistent and formed a single factor. We also report on whether felt ambivalence towards smoking assessed at baseline and at four and eight months post-baseline was related to the desire to quit in cross-sectional and prospective analyses. In all cross-sectional and prospective analyses, smokers who felt increasingly ambivalent reported a stronger desire to quit. These results suggest that ambivalence might be a useful construct to explore further and experimentally induce to assess its effects on desire to quit.