Personality dimensions and psychopathological profiles of Ecstasy users

Only limited information is available with respect to personality traits and the psychopathological characteristics of Ecstasy users. To shed some light on the issue, we compared a group of 43 Ecstasy consumers (made up of both ‘experimenters’, those who took ≤ 27.5 tablets in their lifetime, and ‘a...

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Published in:Human psychopharmacology 2001-12, Vol.16 (8), p.635-639
Main Authors: Dughiero, Giuliana, Schifano, Fabrizio, Forza, Giovanni
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
drug prevention
Ecstasy
MDMA
SCL-90
TPQ
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Summary:Only limited information is available with respect to personality traits and the psychopathological characteristics of Ecstasy users. To shed some light on the issue, we compared a group of 43 Ecstasy consumers (made up of both ‘experimenters’, those who took ≤ 27.5 tablets in their lifetime, and ‘abusers’, those who took larger amounts of the drug) with a composite control group of 77 subjects (made up of drug‐free people, cannabis users and users of illicit drugs other than Ecstasy). Three instruments were used: the Questionnaire for the Assessment of the Use of Entactogenic Drugs (to assess modalities and characteristics of Ecstasy use); the Cloninger Tridimensional Personality Questionnaire (which measures harm avoidance, reward dependence and novelty seeking) and the SCL‐90 (which measures 10 different psychiatric variables). The Ecstasy consumer group subjects showed higher novelty seeking scores than the controls (p 
ISSN:0885-6222
1099-1077
DOI:10.1002/hup.346