Impulsivity-like traits and smoking behavior in college students

Nichea S. Spillane; Gregory T. Smith; Christopher W. Kahler

doi:10.1016/j.addbeh.2010.03.008

Impulsivity-like traits and smoking behavior in college students

Nichea S. Spillane, Gregory T. Smith, Christopher W. Kahler

Psychology

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Abstract

Recent research has deconstructed the concept of impulsivity by identifying five different traits that influence engagement in impulsive behaviors: positive urgency (tendency to act rashly in response to a positive mood), negative urgency (tendency to act rashly in response to a negative mood), sensation seeking, lack of planning, and lack of perseverance. The traits are only moderately related to each other. The aim of this study was to apply this advance to the study of smoking. We tested a two-stage hypothesis: Higher sensation seeking was hypothesized to differentiate current smokers from non-smokers, and negative and positive urgencies were expected to predict concurrent level of nicotine dependence among smokers. As anticipated, greater sensation seeking was associated with a higher odds of being a current smoker (odds ratio = 1.51). Greater positive urgency, but not other impulsivity-related traits, was associated with significantly higher levels of nicotine dependence, explaining 29% of the variance in level of nicotine dependence.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	700-705
Number of pages	6
Journal	Addictive Behaviors
Volume	35
Issue number	7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.addbeh.2010.03.008
State	Published - Jul 2010

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Funding Information:
This work was supported in part by NIAAA F31 AA 014467 to Nichea S. Spillane, a diversity supplement awarded to Nichea S. Spillane by NIAAA parent grant R01 AA016978 and 1 RO1 AA 016166 to Gregory T. Smith. NIAAA had no role in the study design, collection, analysis or interpretation of the data, writing the manuscript, or the decision to submit the paper for publication.

Funding

This work was supported in part by NIAAA F31 AA 014467 to Nichea S. Spillane, a diversity supplement awarded to Nichea S. Spillane by NIAAA parent grant R01 AA016978 and 1 RO1 AA 016166 to Gregory T. Smith. NIAAA had no role in the study design, collection, analysis or interpretation of the data, writing the manuscript, or the decision to submit the paper for publication.

Funders	Funder number
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism	F31 AA 014467, R01 AA016978, R01AA016166

Keywords

Impulsivity
Nicotine dependence
Smoking
Smoking status

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Medicine (miscellaneous)
Clinical Psychology
Toxicology
Psychiatry and Mental health

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