Trait Mindfulness Helps Shield Decision-Making From Translating Into Health-Risk Behavior
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Purpose The cognitive tendency toward mindfulness may influence the enactment of health and risk behaviors by its bringing increased attention to and awareness of decision-making processes underlying behavior. The present study examined the moderating effect of trait mindfulness on associations between intentions to smoke (ITS)/smoking refusal self-efficacy (SRSE) and smoking frequency.Methods Self-reports from Chinese adolescents (N = 5,287; mean age = 16.2 years, standard deviation = .7; 48.8% female) were collected in 24 schools. Smoking frequency was regressed on latent factor interactions Mindful Attention Awareness Scale*ITS and Mindful Attention Awareness Scale*SRSE, adjusting for school clustering effects and covariates.Results Both interaction terms were significant in cross-sectional analyses and showed that high ITS predicted higher smoking frequency among those low, relative to high, in trait mindfulness, whereas low SRSE predicted higher smoking frequency among those low, relative to high, in trait mindfulness.Conclusions Findings suggest trait mindfulness possibly shields against decision-making processes that place adolescents at risk for smoking.
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Various studies have shown that being mindful is related to better mental and physical health in university students.
“Various studies have shown that being mindful is related to better mental [79,80] and physical [81-83] health in university students.”
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The Results (Demographics and Bivariate Correlations; page not provided) report that greater mindfulness was associated with less frequent smoking, supporting a link with health-risk behavior. But the Methods (Participants and Procedures; page not provided) identify the participants as Chinese adolescents in schools, not university students. The paper measures smoking behavior rather than physical health itself; the sentence’s mental-health claim is attached to other citations. (LLM, conf=0.88)
Experimental — accuracy not yet measuredDispositional mindfulness helps prevent smoking by buffering pro-smoking intentions and enhancing smoking refusal.
“A study by Black et al. (2012) has shown that DM helps to prevent smoking by buffering pro-smoking intentions and enhancing smoking refusal”
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- Authors
- Black, D. S., Sussman, S., Johnson, C. A., & Milam, J.
- Affiliations
- University of California, Los Angeles (US)
- Claremont Graduate University (US)
- University of Southern California (US)
- Corresponding author
- Black, David S.
- Venue
- Journal of Adolescent Health
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2012-12
- Volume
- 51
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 588-592
- ISSN
- 1054-139X (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC3505281
- OpenAlex
- W2126770098
- Cited by
- 81
- References
- 26
- Citations by year
- 2026: 2 · 2025: 7 · 2024: 5 · 2023: 9 · 2022: 4 · 2021: 4 · 2020: 8 · 2019: 7 · 2018: 7 · 2017: 9 · 2016: 6 · 2015: 3 · 2014: 10
- FWCI
- 2.79
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- Journal of Adolescent Health (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Scholarship @ Claremont (The Claremont Colleges) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institutes of Health (7 P50 CA084735)
- National Cancer Institute (T32 CA09492)
- UCLA Cousins Center for Psychoneuroimmunology (T32-MH19925)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Physiology › Smoking Behavior and Cessation
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Epidemiology › Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes
- Keywords
- trait mindfulness, adolescent smoking, smoking frequency, smoking intention, decision-making, health risk behaviors, moderating effect, Mindful Attention Awareness Scale, Chinese adolescents
- MeSH terms
- Smoking Prevention, Adolescent, Attention, Awareness, China, Cross-Sectional Studies, Decision Making, Female, Humans, Male, Risk-Taking, Smoking, Health Behavior, Self Efficacy, Intention, Young Adult, Self Report
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