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Refining the tobacco dependence phenotype using the Wisconsin Inventory of Smoking Dependence Motives.
Journal of abnormal psychology - 1 Nov 2008
Piper Megan E, Bolt Daniel M, Kim Su-Young, Japuntich Sandra J, Smith Stevens S, Niederdeppe Jeff, Cannon Dale S, Baker Timothy B
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The construct of tobacco dependence is important from both scientific and public health perspectives, but it is poorly understood. The current research integrates person-centered analyses (e.g., latent profile analysis) and variable-centered analyses (e.g., exploratory factor analysis) to clarify the latent structure of nicotine dependence and to guide distillation of the phenotype. Using data from 4 samples of...
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