Cognitive and behavioral predictors in the process of smoking cessation during pregnancy: Testing for discontinuity patterns in the Transtheoretical Model

• Authors: Zycinska Jolanta
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The aim of the study was to assess predictive power of cognitive variables and health-promoting behaviors for the process of smoking cessation described in terms of the Transtheoretical Model (TTM). Participants in the study were 150 women (mean age 26.93, SD = 4.56 years), in uncomplicated pregnancy. Cigarette smokers constituted 29.3% of the sample, while the rest had previously quitted smoking (in that number 42.1% during pregnancy). Beliefs and expectations were measured by means of scales developed by the authoress, while health-related behaviors were assessed using the Health Behavior Inventory (HBI) by Z. Juczynski, supplemented with pregnancy-specific behaviors. TTM discontinuity patterns were tested in the study using polynomial-based orthogonal contrasts. Statistically significant linear trends were found for expectations concerning the infant's health state and the course of delivery, for beliefs about the effect of maternal smoking on infant health, as well as for pregnancy health behaviors. The obtained results were confirmed by hierarchical regression analysis, with smoking cessation explained to a larger extent by cognitive factors than by health-related behaviors. This may suggest that the TTM is a 'pseudo-stage' model, and a general change of the variables under study is of greater importance for the process of smoking cessation than focusing on the TTM stages.

Keywords

EN

DISCONTINUITY PATTERNS; HEALTH BELIEFS AND EXPECTATIONS; HEALTH-RELATED BEHAVIORS; PREGNANCY SMOKING CESSATION; STAGE MODELS

Discipline

• PSYCHOLOGY: PSYCHOLOGY

• Publisher: Committee for Psychological Sciences, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Polish Psychological Bulletin
• Year: 2009
• Volume: 40
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 29-37
• Physical description: source-id: PPB_40_1\X87W12417763300T.xml
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Zycinska Jolanta

• Jolanta Zycinska, Szkola Wyzsza Psychologii Spolecznej, ul. Chodakowska 19/31, 03-8165 Warszawa, Poland

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