Depressive symptoms, stress, and weight concerns among African American and European American low-income female smokers. |
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Authors: | Ludman, Evette J. Curry, Susan J. Grothaus, Louis C. Graham, Elinor Stout, James Lozano, Paula |
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Abstract: | The relationships between perceived stress, depressive symptoms, concern about weight gain and smoking dependence were examined among 83 European American and 175 African American female smokers bringing children to pediatric clinics serving a low-income population. Among African American women, but not European American women, greater stress and more depressive symptoms predicted greater smoking dependence, and less concern about weight gain predicted greater smoking dependence. Multivariate analyses confirmed the bivariate relationships among stress, depressive symptoms, and smoking dependence among African American women but reduced the relationship between weight concern and smoking dependence. The stronger relationships among stress, depressive symptoms, and smoking dependence among African American women may be indicative of smoking patterns more associated with affect regulation than are the smoking patterns of European American women. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved) |
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Keywords: | perceived stress depressive symptoms concern about weight gain smoking dependence low-income female smokers African American women European American women affect regulation |
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