Anxiety and tobacco consumption in children and adolescents
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https://doi.org/10.20882/adicciones.407Keywords:
smoking, tobacco, anxiety, children, adolescentsAbstract
There is increasing evidence that a relationship exists between cigarette smoking and several psychopathological disorders, particularly depression and anxiety disorders. This evidence exists in adults but has been little studied in children and adolescents. In this study, we analyse the relationship between cigarette smoking and trait-anxiety in two representative samples of adolescents, in primary education (N = 1,447, 11-16 years), and in secondary education (N = 2,790, 14-21 years) in Galicia (Spain). Similar results are found in both samples: those who had never smoked present significantly lower scores in traitanxiety than those who do. Girls scored higher than boys in trait-anxiety, in all the comparisons made. These results indicate the existence of a consistent relationship between anxiety and smoking, which can be observed from an early age to adulthood. The implications of these results for the prevention and treatment of both smoking and anxiety disorders are discussed, as is the implication of taking into smoking antecedents into consideration when a patient seeks anxiety disorder treatment, and the need to prevent smoking consumption and in doing so prevent both smoking and subsequent anxiety disorders..References
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