Can I Use Marijuana Safely? An Examination of Distal Antecedents, Marijuana Protective Behavioral Strategies, and Marijuana Outcomes
| Autor: | John Hustad, Bradley Conner, Kevin King, Adrian Bravo |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Male Marijuana Abuse 050103 clinical psychology Coping (psychology) Health (social science) Adolescent Universities 030508 substance abuse Poison control Marijuana Smoking Toxicology Suicide prevention Occupational safety and health Young Adult 03 medical and health sciences Marijuana use Surveys and Questionnaires Adaptation Psychological mental disorders Injury prevention Forensic engineering Humans Medicine 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Young adult Social Behavior Students Original Research Motivation business.industry 05 social sciences Human factors and ergonomics United States Psychiatry and Mental health Impulsive Behavior Female 0305 other medical science business Clinical psychology |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs. 78:203-212 |
| ISSN: | 1938-4114 1937-1888 |
| Popis: | Given the high prevalence of marijuana use among college students, it is imperative to determine the factors that may reduce risk of problematic marijuana use and/or the development of cannabis use disorder. We examined marijuana protective behavioral strategies (PBS) as a proximal predictor of marijuana-related outcomes and a mediator of the associations between other known risk/protective factors and marijuana-related outcomes.Using data from a sample of 2,129 past-month marijuana users, collected from 11 universities in the United States, we examined marijuana PBS use as a mediator of the effects of sex, age at first use, impulsivity-like traits, and marijuana use motives on marijuana use frequency and marijuana related consequences.Marijuana PBS was identified as a robust negative predictor of marijuana use frequency and marijuana-related consequences. Further, Marijuana PBS use fully or partially mediated the effects of sex, premeditation, perseverance, coping motives, enhancement motives, conformity motives, and expansion motives on marijuana outcomes.Our results suggest that marijuana PBS use is a good candidate to be considered as a mechanism by which marijuana users moderate their marijuana use and attenuate their risk of experiencing marijuana-related consequences. |
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