Scholz, Urte; Berli, Corina; Goldammer, Philippe; Lüscher, Janina; Hornung, Rainer; Knoll, Nina (2013). Social control and smoking: Examining the moderating effects of different dimensions of relationship quality. Families, Systems, & Health, 31(4), pp. 354-365. American Psychological Association 10.1037/a0033063
Full text not available from this repository.A common form of social regulation of an individual’s health behavior is social control. The contextual model of social control assumes that higher relationship quality goes along with more beneficial effects of social control on health behavior. This study examined potential differential moderating effects of different dimensions of relationship quality on the associations between positive and negative social control and smoking behavior and hiding smoking. The sample consisted of 144 smokers (n = 72 women; mean age = 31.78, SD = 10.04) with a nonsmoking partner. Positive and negative social control, dimensions of relationship quality consensus, cohesion and satisfaction, numbers of cigarettes smoked (NCS), hiding smoking (HS), and control variables were assessed at baseline. Four weeks later NCS and HS were assessed again. Only for smokers with high consensus, but not cohesion and satisfaction, a negative association between positive control and NCS emerged. Moreover, smokers with high consensus tended to report more HS when being positively and negatively socially controlled. This also emerged for cohesion and positive control. Satisfaction with the relationship did not display any interaction effects. This study’s results emphasize the importance of differentiating not only between positive and negative social control but also between different dimensions of relationship quality in order to gain a comprehensive understanding of the dynamics in romantic dyads with regard to social regulation of behavioral change.
Item Type: |
Journal Article (Original Article) |
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Division/Institute: |
07 Faculty of Human Sciences > Institute of Psychology > Personality Psychology, Differential Psychology and Diagnostics |
UniBE Contributor: |
Scholz, Urte, Berli, Corina, Lüscher, Janina |
Subjects: |
100 Philosophy > 150 Psychology |
ISSN: |
1091-7527 |
Publisher: |
American Psychological Association |
Language: |
English |
Submitter: |
Karin Dubler |
Date Deposited: |
25 Apr 2014 08:25 |
Last Modified: |
05 Dec 2022 14:29 |
Publisher DOI: |
10.1037/a0033063 |
PubMed ID: |
23957876 |
URI: |
https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/43917 |
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