Who takes the trip? Personality and hallucinogen use among college students and adolescents

Parnes, Jamie E.; Kentopp, Shane D; Conner, Bradley T.; Rebecca, Rachel

doi:10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2020.108263

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“…From another perspective, the distinctive effects of the various dimensions on driving behaviors proved that specific difficulties in emotion regulation are uniquely associated with specific attitudes toward dangerous driving (e.g., driving to show off, positive attitude toward traffic rule violations), similar to the results of a previous study (Parnes et al., 2020). These results illustrate that various difficulties in emotional regulation have different psychological processes, so it is necessary to consider multiple dimensions of emotional regulation in future research.…”

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Sensation seeking predicts risky driving behavior: The mediating role of difficulties in emotion regulation

Zhou

et al. 2022

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The purpose of this study was to explore the mediating effect of difficulties in emotion regulation on the relationship between sensation seeking and driving behavior based on the dual‐process model of aberrant driving behavior. A sample of 299 drivers in China completed the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale, the Driver Behavior Questionnaire, and the Sensation Seeking Scale V (SSS). The relationships among sensation seeking, difficulties in emotion regulation, and driving behavior were investigated using pathway analysis. The results showed that (1) disinhibition and boredom susceptibility are positively and significantly related to difficulties in emotion regulation and risky driving behaviors; (2) difficulties in emotion regulation are positively and significantly associated with risky driving behaviors; (3) difficulties in emotion regulation mediate the effect of sensation seeking on driving behaviors, supporting the dual‐process model of driving behavior; and (4) professional drivers score higher in terms of difficulties in emotion regulation and risky driving behaviors than nonprofessional drivers. The findings of this study could provide valuable insights into the selection of suitable drivers and the development of certain programs that benefit road safety.

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Sensation seeking predicts risky driving behavior: The mediating role of difficulties in emotion regulation

Zhou

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“…Sensation seeking was operationalized via the Sensation Seeking Personality Type Questionnaire (SSPT: Conner, under review). The SSPT exhibits good criterion validity, as evidenced by significant associations in previous studies with health risk behaviors such as NSSI (Knorr et al, 2013), substance use (Parnes et al, 2020), and risky sexual behavior (Rahm-Knigge et al, 2018). The SSPT is comprised of two subscales: experience seeking (five items, α = 0.78) and risk seeking (five items, α = 0.87).…”

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Sensation seeking and nonsuicidal self-injurious behavior among adolescent psychiatric patients

Kentopp

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Fetterling

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Clin Child Psychol Psychiatry

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The Benefits and Barriers model of NSSI postulates that engagement in NSSI is positively reinforced by potent benefits, however there are a host of barriers to engagement, any one of which is salient enough to prevent engagement. It is possible that individual differences in sensation seeking, a trait that describes optimal level of positive reinforcement, may alter the balance between the benefits and barriers of engagement in NSSI. There are significant associations between engagement in NSSI and sensation seeking in college undergraduates, a population with disproportionately high rates of NSSI. However, it is unclear whether these traits play a similar role in adolescents. We expected that higher levels of sensation seeking would positively relate to any NSSI history, lifetime frequency of NSSI, and earlier age at onset of NSSI among a sample of 200 adolescents in a psychiatric hospital. Consistent with previous research, results indicated that females were more likely to engage in NSSI than males. Additionally, increased sensation seeking was associated with greater likelihood of ever engaging in NSSI and a greater number of different NSSI methods tried. Though we expected sensation seeking would be significantly related to lifetime NSSI frequency and earlier onset of NSSI, it was not. Findings suggest that individual differences may alter relations between the benefits and barriers of NSSI and that measuring sensation seeking in adolescents, especially females, and especially those experiencing psychological distress, may identify those at highest risk for engaging in NSSI and may allow for targeted intervention with these individuals.

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“…In line with this, various posts related to a range of possible concerns (e.g., anxiety, depressive, psychotic, hypochondriac, obsessive-compulsive), although this was not necessarily associated with a modification of Redditors’ drug consumption patterns. A special focus of the debate was here on the Hallucinogen Persisting Perception Disorder (HPPD) [ 99 , 100 ], with users asking for remedies to treat the problem, due to the impossibility of visiting clinicians/specialists.…”

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COVID-19 Pandemic Impact on Substance Misuse: A Social Media Listening, Mixed Method Analysis

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The restrictive measures adopted during the COVID-19 pandemic modified some previously consolidated drug use patterns. A focus on social networks allowed drug users to discuss, share opinions and provide advice during a worldwide emergency context. In order to explore COVID-19-related implications on drug trends/behaviour and on most popular psychotropic substances debated, the focus here was on the constantly updated, very popular, Reddit social platform’s posts and comments. A quantitative and qualitative analysis of r/Drugs and related subreddits, using a social media listening netnographic approach, was carried out. The post/comments analysed covered the time-frame December 2019–May 2020. Between December 2019 and May 2020, the number of whole r/Drugs subreddit members increased from 619,563 to 676,581 members, respectively, thus increasing by 9.2% by the end of the data collection. Both the top-level r/Drugs subreddit and 92 related subreddits were quantitatively analysed, with posts/comments related to 12 drug categories. The drugs most frequently commented on included cannabinoids, psychedelics, opiates/opioids, alcohol, stimulants and prescribed medications. The qualitative analysis was carried out focussing on four subreddits, relating to some 1685 posts and 3263 comments. Four main themes of discussion (e.g., lockdown-associated immunity and drug intake issues; drug-related behaviour/after-quarantine plans’ issues; lockdown-related psychopathological issues; and peer-to-peer advice at the time of COVID-19) and four categories of Redditors (e.g., those continuing the use of drugs despite the pandemic; the “couch epidemiologists”; the conspirationists/pseudo-science influencers; and the recovery-focused users) were tentatively identified here. A mixed-methods, social network-based analysis provided a range of valuable information on Redditors’ drug use/behaviour during the first phase of the COVID-19 pandemic. Further studies should be carried out focusing on other social networks as well as later phases of the pandemic.

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Who takes the trip? Personality and hallucinogen use among college students and adolescents

Cited by 5 publications

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Sensation seeking predicts risky driving behavior: The mediating role of difficulties in emotion regulation

Sensation seeking predicts risky driving behavior: The mediating role of difficulties in emotion regulation

Sensation seeking and nonsuicidal self-injurious behavior among adolescent psychiatric patients

COVID-19 Pandemic Impact on Substance Misuse: A Social Media Listening, Mixed Method Analysis

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