TY - JOUR
T1 - Anxiety, extraversion and smoking
AU - McCrae, R. R.
AU - Costa, P. T.
AU - Bosse, R.
N1 - Copyright:
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PY - 1978
Y1 - 1978
N2 - In previous large-scale studies, smoking has been found to be associated either with extraversion or anxiety, though not both. Using a large population of adult American males, anxiety and extraversion scores were examined in groups of never smokers, former light, former heavy, current light and current heavy smokers to test the hypotheses that smokers would be both more extraverted and more anxious than non-smokers. Two independent measures of both traits were used. Heavy current smokers were seen to be significantly higher than non-smokers on both measures of neuroticism or anxiety; there were no differences between groups in extraversion. The small magnitude of reported relations led to the suggestion that future research focus on more meaningful classification of smokers and more specific facets of personality.
AB - In previous large-scale studies, smoking has been found to be associated either with extraversion or anxiety, though not both. Using a large population of adult American males, anxiety and extraversion scores were examined in groups of never smokers, former light, former heavy, current light and current heavy smokers to test the hypotheses that smokers would be both more extraverted and more anxious than non-smokers. Two independent measures of both traits were used. Heavy current smokers were seen to be significantly higher than non-smokers on both measures of neuroticism or anxiety; there were no differences between groups in extraversion. The small magnitude of reported relations led to the suggestion that future research focus on more meaningful classification of smokers and more specific facets of personality.
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U2 - 10.1111/j.2044-8260.1978.tb00277.x
DO - 10.1111/j.2044-8260.1978.tb00277.x
M3 - Article
C2 - 687883
AN - SCOPUS:0018122213
SN - 0007-1293
VL - 17
SP - 269
EP - 273
JO - British Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology
JF - British Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology
IS - 3
ER -