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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HEALTH BEHAVIOR
Volume 37, Issue 3, Pages 334-341Publisher
PNG PUBLICATIONS
DOI: 10.5993/AJHB.37.3.6
Keywords
neighborhood vigilance; neighborhood threat; smoking cessation; locus of control; chance attributions
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- NCI NIH HHS [P30 CA016672, CA016672] Funding Source: Medline
- NCCDPHP CDC HHS [K01 DP000086, K01DP000086] Funding Source: Medline
- NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE [P30CA016672] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
- NATIONAL CENTER FOR CHRONIC DISEASE PREV AND HEALTH PROMO [K01DP000086] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
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Objectives: To examine whether health locus of control mediated relations of self-reported neighborhood vigilance and biochemically verified, continuous short-term smoking abstinence among 200 smokers enrolled in a cohort study. Methods: A nonparametric bootstrapping procedure was used to assess mediation. Results: Health locus of control-chance mediated relations between neighborhood vigilance and smoking abstinence in analyses adjusted for sociodemographics and tobacco dependence (p < .05). Greater vigilance was associated with greater attributions that health was affected by chance, which was associated with a lower likelihood of smoking abstinence. Conclusions: Results suggest that neighborhood perceptions influence residents' attributions for health outcomes, which can affect smoking abstinence.
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