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Smoking, arousal, and affect: the role of anxiety sensitivity
- Source :
- Journal of anxiety disorders. 24(1)
- Publication Year :
- 2009
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Abstract
- Purpose Despite evidence that smoking elevates peripheral autonomic nervous system activity, cigarette smokers commonly report smoking to reduce negative affect, or “calm down.” Studies suggest that anxiety sensitivity is positively associated with the use of anxiolytic substances, but anxiety sensitivity is also characterized by aversive responding to elevations in physiological arousal. As such, anxiety sensitivity may be an important factor in the study of smoking, affect, and arousal. Method Smokers smoked cigarettes in two experimental sessions: a Stressful Speech Condition and a No Stress Condition. Psychophysiological and self-report served as within-subjects, repeated measures. Results Findings revealed that smoking reduced anxiety in high anxiety sensitive smokers who smoked during a stressful situation, but not a no stress situation. Low anxiety sensitive smokers endorsed anxiolysis in both conditions. Conclusions Results suggest that high anxiety sensitive smokers may be sensitive to the physiologically arousing effects of smoking in low stress, low arousal, situations.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
medicine.medical_specialty
Time Factors
Personality Inventory
medicine.drug_class
Anxiety
Neuropsychological Tests
Affect (psychology)
Anxiolytic
Arousal
Electrocardiography
Sex Factors
Heart Rate
Low arousal theory
Surveys and Questionnaires
medicine
Humans
Psychiatry
Psychiatric Status Rating Scales
Analysis of Variance
Smoking
Repeated measures design
Galvanic Skin Response
Middle Aged
Psychiatry and Mental health
Clinical Psychology
Autonomic nervous system
Affect
Anxiety sensitivity
Female
Perception
medicine.symptom
Psychology
Stress, Psychological
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 18737897
- Volume :
- 24
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of anxiety disorders
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....93896f4898966c7ccd03dccc125b4d13