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  • Addiction Research

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  • Self-stigma, the internalization of negative societal beliefs, negatively impacts substance users.
  • Research on self-stigma's antecedents, like substance use motives, is limited.
  • Psilocybin's dual use (therapeutic and recreational) highlights the need to understand how different motives influence self-stigma.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the association between psilocybin use motives and self-stigma.
  • To explore how cognitive, affective, and behavioral dimensions of self-stigma relate to specific psilocybin use motivations.

Main Methods:

  • Online questionnaire administered to 239 participants with prior psilocybin experience.
  • Principal component analysis identified three psilocybin use motive factors: Social Recreation, Experiential Enhancement, and Therapeutic Growth.
  • Hierarchical regression analyses examined associations between motive factors and self-stigma dimensions.

Main Results:

  • Therapeutic Growth motives were linked to decreased self-stigma across all dimensions.
  • Social Recreation motives were associated with increased self-stigma.
  • Experiential Enhancement motives showed no significant association with self-stigma.

Conclusions:

  • Motives for psilocybin use play a role in the degree of self-stigma experienced by users.
  • Findings suggest potential implications for understanding self-stigma related to other substances.
  • Understanding use motives is crucial given the increasing clinical interest in psilocybin for therapeutic purposes.