The Prediction of Drug Use Among College Students From MMPI, MCMI, and Sensation Seeking Scales

Sensation seeking and executive deficits in relation to alcohol, tobacco, and marijuana use frequency among university students: Value of ecologically based measures

“…Consistent with the predictions of this study sensation seeking emerged as the most significant predictor of alcohol, tobacco, and marijuana use (Adams et al, 2012;Alterman et al, 1990;Jaffe & Archer, 1987;Stautz & Cooper, 2013) This relationship now extends to simple ordinal self-reports of drug use frequency as well as more serious drug related problems (Cyders, Flory, Rainer, & Smith, 2009;Fischer & Smith, 2008;Shin, Hong, Jeon, 2012). Various physiological, psychological, and social explanations have been offered as reasons for the strong association between substance use and sensation seeking (Kaynak, Meyers, Caldeira, Vincent, Winters & Arria, 2013).…”

Racial/ethnic variation in mental health correlates of substance use among college students

“…The only mental health indicator that had unequal mean scores was sensation seeking; students identifying as White reported the greatest levels of sensation seeking. These findings are also in alignment with previous research (e.g., Arnett, 1996;Jaffe & Archer, 1987;Pedersen, Molina, Belendiuk, & Donovan, 2012).…”

“…For example, sensation seeking, (Arria, Caldeira, Vincent, O'Grady, & Wish, 2008;Bavarian, Flay, Ketcham, & Smit, 2013) inattention, hyperactivity, academic concern, and psychological distress (Bavarian et al, 2013) have been found to be associated with prescription stimulant misuse. One study found higher levels of sensation-seeking scores to be related to higher levels of drug misuse among college students, and sensation seeking was found to be the most powerful predictor of substance use and misuse (Jaffe & Archer, 1987). Prior research indicates college students often turn to drugs (e.g., prescription drugs, marijuana) and/or alcohol in response to high stress and anxiety in academic settings (Ford & Schroeder, 2008).…”

Polyconsommation de substances psychoactives (alcool, tabac et cannabis) dans la population générale française en 2005

“…À partir des é tudes anglo-saxonnes mené es en population adulte et adolescente, il est possible de dresser quelques traits gé né raux lié s à la polyconsommation. Celle-ci apparaît toujours masculine et concernant plutô t des individus caracté risé s comme impulsifs et à la recherche de sensation [43][44][45]. Les usages simultané s de plusieurs substances s'avè rent par ailleurs, par rapport aux usages d'une seule drogue, plus souvent associé s à une é volution vers la dé pendance, ainsi qu'à des consé quences né gatives et à une dé tresse psychologique [46][47][48][49].…”