- Title
- Self-exempting beliefs and intention to quit smoking within a socially disadvantaged Australian sample of smokers
- Creator
- Guillaumier, Ashleigh; Bonevski, Billie; Paul, Christine; D'Este, Catherine; Twyman, Laura; Palazzi, Kerrin; Oldmeadow, Christopher
- Relation
- International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health Vol. 13, Issue 1, p. 118-118
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph13010118
- Publisher
- MDPI
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2016
- Description
- An investigation of beliefs used to rationalise smoking will have important implications for the content of anti-smoking programs targeted at socioeconomically disadvantaged groups, who show the lowest rates of cessation in the population. This study aimed to assess the types of self-exempting beliefs reported by a sample of socioeconomically disadvantaged smokers, and identify associations between these beliefs and other smoking-related factors with quit intentions. A cross-sectional survey was conducted from March–December 2012 with smokers seeking welfare assistance in New South Wales (NSW), Australia (n = 354; response rate 79%). Responses to a 16-item self-exempting beliefs scale and intention to quit, smoker identity, and enjoyment of smoking were assessed. Most participants earned
- Subject
- self-exempting beliefs; smoking; disadvantage
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1333067
- Identifier
- uon:27006
- Identifier
- ISSN:1660-4601
- Rights
- This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. (CC BY 4.0).
- Language
- eng
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