ArticleSubstance use & misuse2019
Addiction Mindsets and Psychological Processes of Quitting Smoking.
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- Efficiency of behaviour support interventions for smokeless tobacco cessation by dentists.Substance abuse treatment, prevention, and policy · 2026Trial
- A Smartphone-Based Implicit Theories Intervention for Health Behavior Change: Randomized Trial.JMIR mHealth and uHealth · 2023Trial
- A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial of a Web-Based Growth Mindset Intervention to Enhance the Effectiveness of a Smartphone App for Smoking Cessation.JMIR mHealth and uHealth · 2019Trial
- The impact of a growth mindset on adolescents' health risk behaviors: the chain mediating role of core self-evaluation and coping style.BMC psychology · 2026Article
- Motivations for continued tobacco smoking and reasons for quitting among youths in Wakiso district, Uganda: a qualitative study.BMC primary care · 2023Article
- Mindsets and self-efficacy beliefs among individuals with type 2 diabetes.Scientific reports · 2023Article
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Abstract
backgroundLay belief systems about the malleability of human attributes have been shown to impact behavior change in multiple domains. Addiction mindset-i.e., beliefs about the permanence (vs. malleability) of addiction - may affect cigarette smokers' ability to quit, but this has never been examined.
objectivesThe aims of the present research were to develop a measure of addiction mindset (study 1) and examine its associations with various psychological aspects of quitting smoking (study 2).
methodsIn Study 1, using factor analysis of current smokers' and nonsmokers' (n = 600) responses to 22 items designed to measure addiction mindset, we developed a reliable six-item Addiction Mindset Scale (AMS). In Study 2, adult smokers (n = 200) completed the AMS, and measures of a number of psychological processes related to smoking.
resultsHigher scores on the AMS, indicative of the belief that addiction is malleable (referred to as a growth mindset), were positively and significantly associated with greater motivation to quit, greater commitment to quitting, greater self-efficacy to abstain, less attribution of failure to lack of ability to change addiction, and fewer self-reported barriers to cessation (all p's < .05).
conclusionsThe results of this study show a relationship between the beliefs about the permanence of addiction and psychological processes relevant to quitting smoking. The findings underscore the potential of future research exploring how addiction mindsets relate to successful smoking cessation as well as other types of addictive behavior and how they can be applied to change people's behavior.
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