通过应对相关的期望和动机,检查大学生中社会焦虑和大麻问题之间的关系
Katherine A Berry1, Nicholas R Livingston1, EmmaJo Briles1
1Department of Psychology, University of Wyoming.
Cannabis (Albuquerque, N.M.)
|June 17, 2024
概括
大学生的社会焦虑通过使用的期望和动机增加了大麻问题. 了解这些应对机制可以为减少有问题的大麻使用提供干预信息.
科学领域:
- 心理学 心理学 心理学
- 成研究 研究成研究
- 公共卫生 公共卫生
背景情况:
- 高度社会焦虑的大学生面临着与大麻相关问题的更大风险.
- 与应对相关的期望和大麻使用的动机可能会加剧这种风险.
- 现有的模型表明,物质使用受到动机和期望的影响,但在这种情况下,这些因素并未一起研究.
研究的目的:
- 调查社会焦虑与大麻相关问题之间的间接关系.
- 检查应对相关的期望,动机和大麻使用在这种关系中的调解作用.
- 测试与社会焦虑和大麻使用有关的物质使用的动机模型.
主要方法:
- 一项调查对7所美国大学的660名上个月的大麻使用者进行了调查.
- 措施包括社会焦虑,大麻使用频率和问题,期望和动机.
- 使用和路径模型来分析间接影响.
主要成果:
- 社会焦虑通过认知/行为障碍预期,抑郁应对动机和大麻使用间接预测大麻问题.
- 社会和性便利期望,社会焦虑应对动机,以及大麻使用也调解了这种关系.
- 放松/减轻压力的期望,加上抑郁和社会焦虑应对动机,进一步解释了与大麻问题的联系.
- 这些间接影响在不同性别之间是一致的.
结论:
- 这些发现支持了一个基于理论的模型,将应对相关的大麻认知与社会焦虑和大麻问题联系起来.
- 针对这些认知的干预措施可能有助于减轻社会焦虑的大学生的大麻相关问题.
- 这项研究为了解和解决弱势学生群体的大麻使用问题提供了一个框架.
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