Table 3.

Associations between Key Nicotine-Related Variables of the LSUR and LSUR-12 and Hypothesized Validating Measures

Nicotine-Related Variables, Sample Sizes Used for Hypothesis Tests, and Descriptive Statistics d	Expected Medium-to-Large Effect Size		Expected Small-to-Medium Effect Size
	HONC a	FTND b	Years of Education	NEO-FFI c Neuroticism
Age at onset of daily nicotine use (17.7±3.6)	N/A	N/A	ρ=.162 p=.346 n=59	ρ=−.262 p=.141 n=33
Lifetime nicotine dose (15,610±27,210)	ρ=.852 p<.001 n=54	ρ=.796 p<.001 n=53	ρ=−.351 p=.007 n=59	ρ=.185 p=.197 n=50
Past 12-week nicotine dose (493±1,557)	ρ=.827 p<.001 n=54	ρ=.802 p<.001 n=53	N/A	ρ=.177 p=.241 n=51

^aHooked on Nicotine Checklist

^bFagerström Test for Nicotine Dependence

^cNeuroticism, Extraversion, Openness Five-Factor Inventory

^dMean and standard deviation