Subjective well-being, personality, demographic variables, and American state differences in smoking prevalence

Nicotine & Tobacco Research : Official Journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco
Stewart J H McCann

Abstract

The present study was conducted to determine relations between smoking prevalence, subjective well-being, and the Big Five personality variables at the American state level. State smoking prevalence was based on the responses of more than 350,000 adults interviewed in the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System in 2008. Subjective well-being was based on the state-aggregated responses of 353,039 adults to the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index phone interviews during 2008. Big Five variables were based on the state-aggregated responses of 619,397 persons to an Internet survey between 1999 and 2005, which included the 44-item Big Five Inventory. Well-being and smoking prevalence were negatively correlated and remained so when state Big Five, socioeconomic status (SES), White population percent, urban population percent, and median age were controlled in a partial correlation. Hierarchical and stepwise multiple regressions showed (a) that SES and neuroticism were the prime predictors of well-being, (b) that well-being was the prime predictor of smoking prevalence, and (c) that openness to experience was the sole personality or demographic variable to account for differences in smoking prevalence when well-being was controlled,...Continue Reading

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Sep 10, 2011·The Journal of Psychology·Stewart J H McCann
May 11, 2012·Nicotine & Tobacco Research : Official Journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco·Kimberly S Walitzer, Ronda L Dearing
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