Modeling Health Event Impact on Smoking Cessation

Table 2

Correlation coefficients between perceived severity, negative emotions, causal attributions, social norms, heavy smoking index, intentions to quit smoking, and time to relapse ().

Variables

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

14

15

16

17

18

19

20

1. Current quit intention

1.00

2. Time to relapse

0.34^c

1.00

3. Age

0.12^a

0.20^c

1.00

4. Perceived severity at time 1

0.02

-0.07

-0.03

1.00

5. Perceived severity at time 2

0.18^c

0.10^a

0.11^a

0.47^c

1.00

6. Perceived severity at time 3

0.10^a

0.09

0.06

0.28^c

0.45^c

1.00

7. Average perceived severity

0.12^a

0.05

0.05

0.78^c

0.80^c

0.74^c

1.00

8. Highest value of perceived severity

0.21^c

0.11^a

0.10^a

0.55^c

0.84^c

0.61^c

0.85^c

1.00

9. Negative emotions at time 1

0.01

-0.11^a

-0.10^a

0.42^c

0.25^c

0.19^c

0.38^c

0.26^c

1.00

10. Negative emotions at time 2

0.08

-0.02

-0.08

0.25^c

0.32^c

0.22^c

0.34^c

0.30^c

0.77^c

1.00

11. Negative emotions at time 3

-0.05

-0.03

-0.09

0.20^c

0.21^c

0.42^c

0.36^c

0.22^c

0.60^c

0.67^c

1.00

12. Average negative emotions

0.02

-0.06

-0.10^a

0.33^c

0.30^c

0.31^c

0.40^c

0.29^c

0.89^c

0.92^c

0.86^c

1.00

13. Highest value of negative emotions

0.04

-0.02

-0.08

0.29^c

0.33^c

0.24^c

0.37^c

0.32^c

0.87^c

0.91^c

0.69^c

0.93^c

1.00

14. Self-efficacy

0.67^c

0.34^c

0.06

0.01

0.14^b

0.09

0.10^a

0.17^c

0.01

0.09

-0.01

0.03

0.08

1.00

15. Causal attributions of smoking to current illness/health status

0.39^c

0.18^c

0.22^c

0.02

0.12^a

0.14^b

0.12^a

0.15^b

0.14^b

0.13^b

0.01

0.10^a

0.15^b

0.27^c

1.00

16. Actual severity

0.21^c

0.30^c

0.25^c

-0.03

0.15^b

0.19^c

0.13^b

0.20^c

-0.11^a

-0.07

-0.12^a

-0.11^a

-0.07

0.21^c

0.22^c

1.00

17. Heaviness of smoking index (HSI)

0.01

-0.05

0.05

-0.11^a

-0.07

0.02

-0.07

-0.01

-0.01

-0.01

-0.03

-0.02

0.01

-0.06

0.18^c

0.07

1.00

18. Prior intentions to quit smoking

0.51^c

0.01

0.02

0.10^a

0.08

0.07

0.11^a

0.06

0.11^a

0.13^b

0.09^a

0.13^b

0.11^a

0.42^c

0.14^b

-0.07

-0.12^a

1.00

19. Causal attributions × highest score of perceived severity#

0.41^c

0.20^c

0.22^c

0.31^c

0.54^c

0.42^c

0.54^c

0.64^c

0.25^c

0.27^c

0.13^b

0.24^c

0.29^c

0.30^c

0.84^c

0.27^c

0.13^b

0.14^c

1.00

20. Causal attributions × highest score of negative emotions#

0.25^c

0.09

0.07

0.22^c

0.31^c

0.24^c

0.33^c

0.32^c

0.72^c

0.75^c

0.51^c

0.74^c

0.82^c

0.21^c

0.65^c

0.07

0.11^a

0.16^c

0.67^c

1.00

. . . Time to lapse expressed as 6 point ordinal variable.