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PERSONALITY AND INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES
Volume 37, Issue 8, Pages 1693-1700Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2004.03.004
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personality; impulsivity; smoking; alcohol consumption; health risk behaviour
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This prospective study examined the relationships between impulsivity, smoking and alcohol use in a large non-clinical sample of 601 men and 4832 women working in 12 Finnish hospitals. Data on impulsivity, smoking and alcohol consumption were collected by two questionnaires with a two-year interval. At baseline, impulsivity was associated with smoking and alcohol use. After controlling for baseline smoking, impulsivity predicted increased number of cigarettes smoked per day in women (p = 0.08), but not in men. After controlling for alcohol use at baseline, impulsivity predicted increased alcohol consumption similarly in both genders (p < 0.01). Higher impulsivity was also associated with increased likelihood of taking up smoking or becoming a heavy drinker (p < 0.05). This evidence suggests that impulsivity contributes to increasing health risk behaviours. (C) 2004 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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