A Measure of Cognitive Dissonance as a Predictor of Smoking Treatment Outcome
- 1 April 1968
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Psychological Reports
- Vol. 22 (2) , 655-658
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1968.22.2.655
Abstract
In an effort to determine which pre-treatment variables could serve as predictors of success in a smoking-treatment program, 213 adult volunteer smokers were assessed for a wide range of factors. A specially devised instrument, a measure of Effective Cognitive Dissonance, proved to be the variable most closely associated with end-of-treatment smoking rates.Keywords
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