Sijuwola O A
Neuro-psychiatric Hospital, Abeokuta, Nigeria.
Afr J Med Med Sci. 1989 Jun;18(2):105-8.
The study sample comprised 688 students of a Federal College of Education. Out of this population, there were 109 smokers producing a prevalence rate of 20%. The greatest percentage of smokers fell within the age range 20-29 years. Comparison of smokers and non-smokers showed no statistically significant differences in scores on the extraversion and neuroticism scales of the Eysenck personality questionnaire. Smokers, however, scored significantly higher than non-smokers on the psychoticism scale. An association was found between marital status and smoking behaviour. It is concluded that the association between smoking behaviour and some dimensions of personality such as extraversion and neuroticism reported in some studies may be due to a third variable, most likely a social one.
该研究样本包括一所联邦教育学院的688名学生。在这一群体中，有109名吸烟者，患病率为20%。吸烟者比例最高的年龄范围在20至29岁之间。吸烟者与非吸烟者在艾森克人格问卷的外向性和神经质量表得分上没有统计学上的显著差异。然而，吸烟者在精神质量表上的得分显著高于非吸烟者。研究发现婚姻状况与吸烟行为之间存在关联。得出的结论是，一些研究中报道的吸烟行为与人格某些维度（如外向性和神经质）之间的关联可能归因于第三个变量，很可能是一个社会变量。
