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Strengthening quitter self-identity: An experimental study
Objectives: Smoking-related self-identity processes are important for smoking
cessation. We examined whether quitter self-identity (i.e. identification with
quitting smoking) could be strengthened through a writing exercise, and
whether expected social support for quitting, manipulated through vignettes,
could facilitate identification with quitting.
Design: Participants (N = 339 daily smokers) were randomly assigned to a 2
(identity: strengthened quitter self-identity vs. control) × 3 (social support:
present vs. absent vs. neutral control) between-participants design.
Main Outcome Measures: The main outcome was post-test quitter self-identity.
Results: Post-test quitter self-identity was not strengthened successfully. Only
a small and marginally significant...
Show moreObjectives: Smoking-related self-identity processes are important for smoking
cessation. We examined whether quitter self-identity (i.e. identification with
quitting smoking) could be strengthened through a writing exercise, and
whether expected social support for quitting, manipulated through vignettes,
could facilitate identification with quitting.
Design: Participants (N = 339 daily smokers) were randomly assigned to a 2
(identity: strengthened quitter self-identity vs. control) × 3 (social support:
present vs. absent vs. neutral control) between-participants design.
Main Outcome Measures: The main outcome was post-test quitter self-identity.
Results: Post-test quitter self-identity was not strengthened successfully. Only
a small and marginally significant intervention effect was found on quitter
self-identity, which did not generalise to positively influence quit-intention or
behaviour. The social support manipulation did not facilitate quitter self-identity.
Secondary content analyses showed that quitter self-identity was strengthened
among participants who linked quitting smoking to their lifestyle,
wanted to become quitters for health reasons, and whose reasons for becoming
quitters included approach of positive aspects of quitting, but not among
participants who linked quitter self-identity to their self-perceptions.
Conclusions: Results provide insight into the content of smokers’ self-conceptualizations
as quitters. Writing exercises should be improved and tested to
eventually successfully strengthen quitter identities.
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- Meijer, E.; Gebhardt, W.A.; Laar, C. van; Putte, B. van den; Evers, A.W.M.
- Date
- 2018
- Journal
- Psychology and Health
- Volume
- 33
- Issue
- 10
- Pages
- 1229 - 1250