Attentional bias to negative affect moderates negative affect's relationship with smoking abstinence.

ABSTRACT:

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

SUBMITTER: Etcheverry PE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4979563 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature