RT Journal Article
T1 Boredom Susceptibility and Quit Smoking: The Role of Anxiety Symptoms
A1 Suárez Castro, Daniel
A1 Barroso Hurtado, María
A1 Martínez Vispo, Carmela
A1 Becoña Iglesias, Elisardo
A1 López Durán, Ana
K1 Boredom susceptibility
K1 Sensation-seeking
K1 Anxiety symptoms
K1 Abstinence
K1 Smoking cessation
K1 Cognitive-behavioral treatment
AB Boredom is one of the main reported motives for smoking. However, scarce research has examined the relationship between boredom susceptibility and abstinence achievement in treatment-seeking smokers. The aim of this study is to examine the mediating effect of anxiety symptoms in the relationship between boredom susceptibility and abstinence at the end of a smoking cessation treatment. The sample was composed of 481 Spanish smokers who received a cognitive-behavioral treatment to quit (Mage= 45.51, SD = 11.16; 60.6% female). The Boredom Susceptibility subscale of the Sensation Seeking Scale Form-V and the Beck Anxiety Inventory were used. Pearson correlations and mediation analyses were conducted to examine the relationships between the study variables. Boredom susceptibility was significantly and positively correlated to anxiety symptoms, but not to abstinence. Anxiety symptoms were significantly and negatively correlated to abstinence. A significant indirect effect of boredom susceptibility on abstinence at the end of treatment through anxiety symptoms was found. There was no direct relation between boredom susceptibility and abstinence. These findings extend previous literature by showing that higher boredom susceptibility is associated with less likelihood to be abstinent at the end of the treatment through higher anxiety symptoms. These results highlight the relevance of considering the inclusion of boredom and anxiety management techniques in smoking cessation interventions.
PB Taylor & Francis
SN 0022-3980
YR 2023
FD 2023
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10347/44772
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10347/44772
LA eng
NO Suárez-Castro, D., Barroso-Hurtado, M., Martínez-Vispo, C., Becoña, E., & López-Durán, A. (2023). Boredom Susceptibility and Quit Smoking: The Role of Anxiety Symptoms. The Journal of Psychology, 157(4), 242–251. https://doi.org/10.1080/00223980.2023.2183933
NO This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in The Journal of Psychology on 2023, available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/00223980.2023.2183933. It is deposited under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
NO This work was supported by the Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (Project PSI2015-66755-R and Project PID2019-109400RB-100/AEI/10.13039/501100011033) and co-financed by FEDER (European Regional Development Found)
DS Minerva
RD 28 abr 2026