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Article: Personality, depressive symptoms and smoking status among Turkish university students.(Report)
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- Social Behavior and Personality: an international journal
- Article date:
- July 1, 2008
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The association between the sociotropic/autonomic personality characteristics, depressive symptoms and cigarette-smoking status of 385 male and 241 female university students was examined. Depressive symptoms and sociotropic/autonomic personality were measured using the Beck Depression Inventory (adapted for use in Turkey by Hish [1998]) and the Sociotropy-Autonomy Scale (adapted for use in Turkey by Sahin, Ulusoy, & Sahin [1993]); smoking behaviors were also assessed. Logistic regression analysis was used to assess the association between sociotropic/autonomic personality characteristics, depressive symptoms and cigarette-smoking status. Current smokers showed a trend, ...