Abstract
Objective: Psychological network analysis was used to evaluate the relations between beliefs about cigarette smoking in current smokers with and without a recent quit attempt and determine if these networks differed in global strength (how strongly beliefs are related) or global structure (which beliefs are related). Design: Using two publicly available datasets, the California Smokers’ Cohort (CSC; N = 933) and Wave 1 of the Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health (PATH; N = 7855), we evaluated differences in global strength and global structure of the beliefs held by current smokers with and without a recent quit attempt. Main Outcome Measures: Strength and structure of networks generated for current smokers with and without a recent quit attempt. Results: In the CSC dataset there were differences between smokers with and without a recent quit attempt in global structure and marginal differences in global strength; the PATH dataset suggested small differences in global strength and structure. Conclusion: The present study suggests that consideration of relations among smoking beliefs may be a valuable contribution to characterizing smoking beliefs when assessing smoking quit attempts.
Original language | English (US) |
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Journal | Psychology and Health |
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State | Accepted/In press - 2022 |
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Keywords
- attitude structure
- network analysis
- Smoking
PubMed: MeSH publication types
- Journal Article