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LISANTI, Raúl et al. Tabaquismo: su relación con personalidad y variables sociales. Rev. am. med. respir. [online]. 2016, vol.16, n.4, pp.332-340. ISSN 1852-236X.

Cigarette smoking is an addictive and chronic disease that has been associated to various factors. The objective was to investigate the association between personality characters with a smoking condition using the Eysenck questionnaire (EPQ-R) and to evaluate the social variables that influence this pathology. A descriptive and transversal observational study was performed through a self-administered survey that involved 205 people, men and women with an average of 46 years of age. Realized in the province of Mendoza Argentina during the period of 2013-2015. In our conclusion we wish to outstand within the social variable, an association with the low level of education, if a parent smoked and having friends in their childhood and teenage years related with smoking. When personality features were evaluated, we observed a greater number of people who had tried marihuana with higher levels of neuroticism and in the lying scales. People who smoked, who had high extroversion features, had many smoking friends in their childhood. Analyzing the smoking condition with personality, we found higher levels of neuroticism in actual smokers. We believe it to be very important to identify the personality features in our population, in able to identify its implication in the normal or abnormal behavior of society. Being able to know and identify these predictable variables associated with the initiation and maintained smoking habit, would help better prevention strategies and treatment of this disease, it would be another valuable tool to treat this pathology.

Palabras clave : Tobacco smoking; Personality; Eysenck personality questionnaire; Addiction; Social variables; Marijuana.

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