TY - JOUR
T1 - Attentional Bias to Negative Affect Moderates Negative Affect's Relationship With Smoking Abstinence
AU - Etcheverry, Paul E.
AU - Lam, Cho
AU - Vidrine, Jennifer Irvin
AU - Waters, Andrew J.
AU - Correa-Fernandez, Virmarie
AU - Cinciripini, Paul M.
AU - Wetter, David W.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 American Psychological Association. All Rights Reserved.
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - Objective: To examine whether initial orienting (IO) and inability to disengage (ITD) attention from negative affective stimuli moderate the association of negative affect with smoking abstinence during a quit attempt. Method: Data were from a longitudinal cohort study of smoking cessation (N = 424). A negative affect modified Stroop task was administered 1 week before and on quit day to measure IO and ITD. Ecological Momentary Assessments were used to create negative affect intercepts and linear slopes for the week before quitting and on quit day. Quit day and long-term abstinence measures were collected. Results: Continuation ratio logit model analyses found significant interactions for prequit negative affect slope with prequit ITD, odds ratio (OR) = 0.738 (0.57, 0.96), p =. 02, and for quit day negative affect intercept with quit day ITD, OR = 0.62 (0.41, 950), p =. 03, predicting abstinence. The Prequit Negative Affect Intercept X Prequit IO interaction predicting quit day abstinence was significant, OR = 1.42 (1.06, 1.90), p =. 02, as was the Quit Day Negative Affect Slope X Quit Day IO interaction predicting long-term abstinence, OR = 1.45 (1.02, 2.08), p =. 04. Conclusion: The hypothesis that the association of negative affect with smoking abstinence would be moderated by ITD was generally supported. Among individuals with high ITD, negative affect was inversely related to abstinence, but unrelated to abstinence among individuals with lower levels of ITD. Unexpectedly, among individuals with low IO, negative affect was inversely related to abstinence, but unrelated to abstinence among individuals with higher levels of ITD.
AB - Objective: To examine whether initial orienting (IO) and inability to disengage (ITD) attention from negative affective stimuli moderate the association of negative affect with smoking abstinence during a quit attempt. Method: Data were from a longitudinal cohort study of smoking cessation (N = 424). A negative affect modified Stroop task was administered 1 week before and on quit day to measure IO and ITD. Ecological Momentary Assessments were used to create negative affect intercepts and linear slopes for the week before quitting and on quit day. Quit day and long-term abstinence measures were collected. Results: Continuation ratio logit model analyses found significant interactions for prequit negative affect slope with prequit ITD, odds ratio (OR) = 0.738 (0.57, 0.96), p =. 02, and for quit day negative affect intercept with quit day ITD, OR = 0.62 (0.41, 950), p =. 03, predicting abstinence. The Prequit Negative Affect Intercept X Prequit IO interaction predicting quit day abstinence was significant, OR = 1.42 (1.06, 1.90), p =. 02, as was the Quit Day Negative Affect Slope X Quit Day IO interaction predicting long-term abstinence, OR = 1.45 (1.02, 2.08), p =. 04. Conclusion: The hypothesis that the association of negative affect with smoking abstinence would be moderated by ITD was generally supported. Among individuals with high ITD, negative affect was inversely related to abstinence, but unrelated to abstinence among individuals with lower levels of ITD. Unexpectedly, among individuals with low IO, negative affect was inversely related to abstinence, but unrelated to abstinence among individuals with higher levels of ITD.
KW - attentional bias to negative affect
KW - inability to disengage
KW - initial orienting
KW - negative affect
KW - smoking cessation
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U2 - 10.1037/hea0000338
DO - 10.1037/hea0000338
M3 - Article
C2 - 27505211
AN - SCOPUS:85021859378
SN - 0278-6133
VL - 35
SP - 881
EP - 890
JO - Health Psychology
JF - Health Psychology
IS - 8
ER -