Journal article
Abstinence Violation Effect: Validation of an Attributional Construct With Smoking Cessation
Journal of consulting and clinical psychology, Vol.55(2), pp.145-149
04/1987
DOI: 10.1037/0022-006X.55.2.145
PMID: 3571666
Abstract
The abstinence violation effect (AVE) proposed in
Marlatt and Gordon's (1980
,
1985
) model of smoking relapse was operationalized as a combination of internal, stable, and global causal attributions for smoking a cigarette following the attainment of abstinence from smoking. Causal attributions both for maintaining abstinence and for smoking in hypothetical high-risk situations were obtained prior to quitting from participants in a smoking cessation program. After treatment, subjects who relapsed also provided retrospective causal attributions for initial smoking episodes. Results showed that participants who relapsed following a slip reported significantly higher AVEs (more internal, stable, and global causal attributions) than those who regained abstinence following a slip. Furthermore, the AVE emerged as the strongest predictor of subsequent smoking when included in a discriminant analysis along with other factors associated with the initial smoking episode. Prospective pretreatment attributions for smoking and not smoking in hypothetical high-risk situations were not significantly related to attributions for actual smoking episodes.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Abstinence Violation Effect: Validation of an Attributional Construct With Smoking Cessation
- Creators
- Susan Curry - University of WashingtonG. Alan Marlatt - University of WashingtonJudith R Gordon - University of Washington
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Journal of consulting and clinical psychology, Vol.55(2), pp.145-149
- Publisher
- American Psychological Association
- DOI
- 10.1037/0022-006X.55.2.145
- PMID
- 3571666
- ISSN
- 0022-006X
- eISSN
- 1939-2117
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 04/1987
- Academic Unit
- Health Management and Policy; Community and Behavioral Health
- Record Identifier
- 9984366293802771
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