Role of Personality Variables in Drug Abuse in a Spanish University Population

This article explores the relationships between certain cognitive and emotional factors (sensation seeking, impulsivity, self-esteem, anxiety sensitivity and loneliness) and regular consumption of alcohol and other drugs by a university population from Almería (South Spain). During 2005 and 2006 stu...

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Published in:International journal of mental health and addiction 2009-07, Vol.7 (3), p.475-487
Main Authors: García-Montes, José M, Zaldívar-Basurto, Flor, López-Ríos, Francisca, Molina-Moreno, Antonio
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adjustment (to Environment)
Alcohol
Anxiety
College Students
Community and Environmental Psychology
Consumption prediction
Drinking
Drug Abuse
Drug use
drugs
Foreign Countries
Health Psychology
Impulsivity
Loneliness
Longitudinal studies
Medicine
Medicine & Public Health
Personality
Personality Traits
Psychiatry
Psychological Patterns
Psychology
Psychometrics
Public Health
Questionnaires
Rehabilitation
Reward Deficiency Syndrome
Self esteem
Sensation seeking
Social Adjustment
Spain
Variables
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Summary:This article explores the relationships between certain cognitive and emotional factors (sensation seeking, impulsivity, self-esteem, anxiety sensitivity and loneliness) and regular consumption of alcohol and other drugs by a university population from Almería (South Spain). During 2005 and 2006 students were given a battery of questionnaires related to these personality variables and the substances they had consumed. After filling out the psychometric tests, the participants gave a urine sample which was then analyzed. The findings stress the role of sensation seeking and loneliness, understood as social maladjustment, in the regular consumption of alcohol and other drugs, in both men and women.
ISSN:1557-1874
1557-1882
DOI:10.1007/s11469-007-9144-y