%0 Journal Article
%T Psychological profile and nicotine dependence in smoking undergraduate students of UFMT
%A Rondina
%A Regina de C¨¢ssia
%A Botelho
%A Clovis
%A Silva
%A Ageo M¨¢rio Candido da
%A Gorayeb
%A Ricardo
%J Jornal de Pneumologia
%D 2003
%I Scientific Electronic Library Online
%R 10.1590/S0102-35862003000100006
%X introduction: data on the relationship between personality profile and nicotine dependence may help health professionals to design and improve programs for the treatment and prevention of this dependence. objective: to investigate the relationship between personality profile and nicotine dependence in a group of smoking undergraduate students. methods: a total of 1,245 undergraduate students were randomly selected among 10,500 students enrolled at the cuiab¨¢ campus of ufmt in 2001. a standard questionnaire was applied for social characterization and for the determination of the tobacco consumption pattern, comprising 80 students considered as smokers. these students were then submitted to the fagerstr£¿m test (1978) for nicotine dependence and to the reduced version of the comrey personality scale (cps), that determines personality dimensions. results: analysis of the mean scores (student's t test) revealed an inversely proportional borderline association between dependence and the order x lack of compulsion scale (p = 0.06), and a negative or inversely proportional association between the cps extroversion x introversion (p = 0.002) and control of validity scales (p = 0.04). linear regression analysis of the fagerstr£¿m test points confirmed the inversely proportional borderline association between dependence and the order x lack of compulsion (p = 0.06) and cps extroversion x introversion scales (p = 0.02). however, when the interference of daily cigarette consumption was controlled, only the extroversion x introversion scale remained associated with dependence (p = 0.001). conclusion: students who are nicotine-dependent smokers are less extroverted than non-dependent smokers.
%K personality
%K nicotine dependence
%K undergraduate students
%K smokers.
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