Personality, Arousal and Individual Differences in Cigarette Smoking
- 1 October 1979
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Psychological Reports
- Vol. 45 (2) , 423-428
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1979.45.2.423
Abstract
This study attempted to examine physiologically based personality correlates of ‘low-arousal smokers’ and ‘high-arousal smokers.’ The former were smokers who generally experienced their strongest need to smoke in low-arousal situations, characterized by, e.g., monotony or boredom, while the latter experienced their strongest need to smoke in high-arousal situations, characterized by, e.g., anxiety or excitement. Members of each group completed the Eysenck Personality Inventory and the Vando Reduction-Augmentation Scale. High-arousal smokers exhibited significantly greater scores on extraversioon, neuroticism, and reducing dimensions.This publication has 13 references indexed in Scilit:
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