Association between Positivity and Smoking Cessation

Table 3

Zero-order correlations among gender, age, conscientiousness, generalized self-efficacy, Positivity, smoking status, and craving to smoke (n = 481).

	Gender	Age	POS	GSE	CONSC	Smoking status at interview	Craving to smoke
Gender	1
Age	.03	1
POS	.10*	−.12**	1
GSE	.01	.10*	.42**	1
CONSC	−.03	.10*	.37**	.49**	1
Smoking status at interview	−.14*	−.07	−.11*	−.05	−.03	1
Craving to smoke	−.12*	−.06	−.18**	−.08	−.04	.79**	1

Note. POS: Positivity; GSE: Generalized Self-Efficacy; CONSC: Conscientiousness.
* P < .05 and **P < .01. Correlations were computed using tetrachoric coefficients for couples of dichotomous variables (i.e., smoking status and gender), poliserial coefficients for couples of continuous and dichotomous variables (i.e., GSE and gender), and Pearson’s coefficients for continuous variables (i.e., scores on the POS, GSE, and CONSC; smoking status at interview: “still-smokers or nonsmokers at the telephone interview”).