Zvolensky, Michael J.Vujanovic, Anka A.Weber, KarenSmit, Tanya2019-07-292019-07-292018-12https://hdl.handle.net/10657/4291Scientific evidence suggests that pain-related anxiety may contribute to the maintenance of tobacco addiction among smokers with varying levels of pain. Yet, no work has investigated the relation between pain-related anxiety and cognitive-based smoking processes within a mechanistic model. Dysphoria may explain the relation between pain-related anxiety and smoking outcomes, as it is a construct that relates to pain and smoking outcomes. Thus, the current study examined the explanatory role of dysphoria in the relation between pain-related anxiety and three clinically significant smoking outcomes: perceived barriers to cessation, negative affect reduction motives, and negative mood abstinence expectancies. Participants included 101 (Mage = 32.74 years, SD = 13.60; 35.6% female) adult smokers. Results indicated that pain-related anxiety had an indirect effect on all dependent variables through dysphoria. The current findings provide evidence that dysphoria may serve to maintain maladaptive smoking processes in smokers with pain-related anxiety. Keywords: Pain, Pain-Related Anxiety, Dysphoria, Smoking, TobaccoenThe author of this work is the copyright owner. UH Libraries and the Texas Digital Library have their permission to store and provide access to this work. Further transmission, reproduction, or presentation of this work is prohibited except with permission of the author(s).Honors Thesis