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. 2019 Dec;27(6):569-577.
doi: 10.1037/pha0000270. Epub 2019 Mar 21.

Anxiety sensitivity and smoking outcome expectancies among Spanish-speaking Latinx adult smokers

Michael J Zvolensky  1 , Jafar Bakhshaie  1 , Justin M Shepherd  1 , Lorra Garey  1 , Natalia Peraza  1 , Andres G Viana  1 , Jason T Brown  2 , Richard A Brown  3
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Anxiety sensitivity and smoking outcome expectancies among Spanish-speaking Latinx adult smokers

Michael J Zvolensky et al. Exp Clin Psychopharmacol. 2019 Dec.

Abstract

Smoking is among the most important health behaviors linked to premature death and disability among the Latinx population. Yet there is limited understanding of whether transdiagnostic factors like anxiety sensitivity may help explain smoking expectancies among Spanish-speaking Latinx smokers. The present investigation evaluated anxiety sensitivity in regard to smoking outcome expectancy factors among a large sample of adult Latinx smokers. Participants were 363 Spanish-speaking Latinx daily smokers (58.7% female, Mage = 33.3 years, SD = 9.8). As expected, anxiety sensitivity was significantly related to expectancies of negative reinforcement and negative personal consequences. Anxiety sensitivity also was a significant predictor of smoking expectancies of appetite control and positive reinforcement. The present study provides novel empirical evidence that anxiety sensitivity explains a notable degree of variance in smoking outcome expectancies over the variance accounted for by a range of theoretically relevant covariates among Latinx smokers. These results highlight the clinical utility in assessing anxiety sensitivity among Latinx smokers and focusing greater attention on this construct in efforts to better understand cognitive-based smoking expectancies among this population. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved).

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Conflict of interest statement

Conflict of Interest: Richard A. Brown has equity ownership in Health Behavior Solutions, which is developing products for tobacco cessation. The terms of this arrangement have been reviewed and approved by the University of Texas at Austin in accordance with its policy on objectivity in research.

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