%0 Artículo (Article) %A Gantiva Díaz, Carlos %I Universidad Santo Tomás, Bogotá, Colombia %D 2012 %G Español (Spanish) %T Dimensions of Emotion During the Cessation Process of Tobacco Consumption: Support for Motivational Vision of Change %U http://hdl.handle.net/11634/25347 %X The objective of this research was to identify differences in the dimensions valuation of emotion according to the degree of readiness to change regarding the cessation of tobacco consumption. The study was conducted under the paradigm of affective picture viewing with a comparative descriptive design. 90 participants and 51 images validated in Colombia of the International Affective Picture System were used, as well as 9 images validated and associated with tobacco consumption, the brief scale to assess stages of change and the SAM (Self Assessment Manikin). The results show an appetitive valence, high arousal and low dominance in the early stages of change; aversive valence, arousal and dominance high average in the intermediate stages, and neutral valence, low arousal and high dominance by the end of the change process. The results are explained from the motivational models of change.