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Smoking Habit and Psychological Distress in Adolescent Female Students
Author(s) -
Schifano Fabrizio,
Forza Giovanni,
Gallimberti Luigi
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
the american journal on addictions
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.997
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1521-0391
pISSN - 1055-0496
DOI - 10.1111/j.1521-0391.1994.tb00376.x
Subject(s) - somatization , hostility , anxiety , psychiatry , clinical psychology , checklist , psychology , psychological distress , symptom checklist 90 , distress , medicine , cognitive psychology
The authors administered a package containing some smoking‐related questions and a psychiatric inventory, the Symptom Checklist (SCL‐90), to 564 young women students (14–17 years old) to obtain information on the strength of the association between smoking and psychological distress in women smokers. Somatization, anxiety, hostility, and paranoid ideation scores were higher in teenage women smokers than in nonsmokers. Smokers generally have higher levels of minor psychiatric disturbance, but the data show that these symptoms are already present among young women at the start of their smoking careers.