scholarly journals Links between Psychotropic Substance Use and Sensation Seeking in a Prevalence Study: The Role of Some Features of Parenting Style in a Large Sample of Adolescents

2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 ◽  
pp. 1-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marco Scalese ◽  
Olivia Curzio ◽  
Valentina Cutrupi ◽  
Luca Bastiani ◽  
Mercedes Gori ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Substance Use ◽  
Parental Monitoring ◽  
Sensation Seeking ◽  
Drug Users ◽  
Parental Knowledge ◽  
Financial Status ◽  
Psychotropic Substance ◽  
Adolescent Parent ◽  
School Survey ◽  
Alcohol And Other Drugs

Aims. The objectives of the study were to (a) investigate the prevalence risk of current drug users and (b) explore the association between parental monitoring, adolescent-parent relationship, family structure, financial status, and sensation-seeking and psychotropic substance use.Methods. Data were drawn from the 2002 Italian student population survey of the European School Survey Project on Alcohol and Other Drugs. The sample size was 10,790 adolescents, aged 15–19 years. Multivariate logistic analyses were performed.Findings. The prevalence of users was 27.3% (34.2% males; 21.6% females). Single-parent and reconstructed families were related to the greatest likelihood of substance use. A medium financial status and, for females, a satisfying relationship with father were protective factors. Probability of engaging in risk-taking behavior increased when parental knowledge decreased. Exploring deeper how parental monitoring could modify the relation between different traits of sensation seeking and substances use revealed the following: “thrill and adventure seeking,” within the case of a good monitoring, can help against the use of substances; “boredom susceptibility” is not associated with drug use, except when parental monitoring is weak.Conclusions. Specific subdimensions, associated with substance use, may be more amenable to prevention than general interventions on sensation-seeking personality. Family is the context that could promote health education.

scholarly journals A collaborative community approach to adolescent substance misuse in Iceland

2010 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 86-88 ◽  
Author(s):  
Inga Dora Sigfusdottir ◽  
Alfgeir L. Kristjansson ◽  
Margret L. Gudmunsdottir ◽  
John P. Allegrante
Keyword(s):  
Substance Use ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Substance Misuse ◽  
Upward Trend ◽  
School Students ◽  
Adolescent Substance ◽  
Community Approach ◽  
Collaborative Community ◽  
School Survey ◽  
Alcohol And Other Drugs

Substance use has become a major threat to health and human development in many European countries. In 23 out of 28 countries participating in the European School Survey Project on Alcohol and Other Drugs (ESPAD), there was a constant and substantial increase in substance use among secondary-school students between the years 1995 and 2003 (Hibell et al, 2003). Iceland experienced a similar upward trend in substance use (Sigfusdottir et al, 2008). Throughout the 1990s, the use of alcohol, tobacco and other drugs increased steadily among 15- and 16-year-olds. In 1998, approximately 17% of 16-year-olds had tried hashish, which was the highest frequency to be measured in Iceland, and over 80% reported that they had used alcohol once or more in their lives (Thorlindsson et al, 1998).

scholarly journals Friends and family matter Most: a trend analysis of increasing e-cigarette use among Irish teenagers and socio-demographic, personal, peer and familial associations

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Joan Hanafin ◽  
Salome Sunday ◽  
Luke Clancy
Keyword(s):  
Parental Monitoring ◽  
Cigarette Use ◽  
Chi Square ◽  
Quit Smoking ◽  
School Survey ◽  
Increasing Risk ◽  
Never Smokers ◽  
Alcohol And Other Drugs ◽  
Family Matter ◽  
Associated Variables

Abstract Background E-cigarette ever-use and current-use among teenagers has increased worldwide, including in Ireland. Methods We use data from two Irish waves (2015, 2019) of the European School Survey Project on Alcohol and other Drugs (ESPAD) to investigate gender and teenage e-cigarette use (n = 3421 16-year-olds). Using chi-square analyses, we report changes in e-cigarette ever-use, current-use, and associated variables. Using multivariable logistic regression, we analyse the increase in e-cigarette use and socio-demographic, personal, peer and familial associations, focusing on gender differences. Results E-cigarette ever-use increased from 23% in 2015 to 37% in 2019, and current-use from 10 to 18%. Compared with 2015, the odds in 2019, of becoming both an e-cigarette ever-user and current-user, were significantly higher for girls than boys (ever-use: AOR 2.67 vs 2.04; current-use: AOR 3.11 vs 1.96). Smoking and e-cigarette use are linked but never-smokers who try e-cigarettes rose significantly from 33 to 67% and those using e-cigarettes to quit smoking decreased significantly from 17 to 3%. Almost two-thirds of respondents (66%) in 2019 said that their reason for trying e-cigarettes was “out of curiosity”. Peer smoking is significantly associated with likelihood of e-cigarette ever-use (AOR 6.52) and current-use (AOR 5.45). If “Most/All friends smoke”, odds were significantly higher for boys than for girls (ever-use AOR 7.07 vs 6.23; current-use AOR 5.90 vs 5.31). Less parental monitoring is significantly associated with greater e-cigarette ever-use (AOR 3.96) and current-use (4.48), and having parents who usually don’t know where their child is on Saturday nights was also associated with significantly higher odds for boys than for girls (ever-use AOR 5.42 vs 3.33; current-use AOR 5.50 vs 3.50). Conclusion Respondents had significantly higher odds of being e-cigarette ever- and current-users in 2019 compared with 2015. Use is higher among boys but girls are increasingly at risk. Two-thirds had never smoked cigarettes at first e-cigarette use; two-thirds used out of curiosity but few (3%) for smoking cessation. The most prominent risk factors for e-cigarette use were peer- and parent-related, especially so for boys. Interventions that take account of friend and family influences may provide mechanisms for preventing an increasing risk of nicotine addiction.

scholarly journals Parents' and Youths' Solicitation and Disclosure of Information in Today's Digital Age

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 5-28
Author(s):  
Jessie H. Rudi ◽  
Jodi Dworkin
Keyword(s):  
Substance Use ◽  
Technology Use ◽  
Voluntary Disclosure ◽  
Text Messaging ◽  
Parental Monitoring ◽  
Protective Factor ◽  
Parental Knowledge ◽  
Youth Workers ◽  
Disclosure Of Information ◽  
Substance Use Initiation

Extensive research has identified parental monitoring to be a protective factor for youth. Parental monitoring includes parents’ solicitation of information from their child and the child’s voluntary disclosure of information. In today’s digital society, parental monitoring can occur using technology, such as text messaging, email, and social networking sites. The current study describes parents’ and youths’ communication technology use explicitly to solicit and share information with each other in a sample of 56 parent–youth dyads from the same family (youth were 13 to 25 years old). We also examined associations between in-person parental monitoring, parental monitoring using technology, parental knowledge, and youth substance use initiation. Results revealed great variability in frequency of parental monitoring using technology, with a subgroup of parents and youth reporting doing these behaviors very frequently. Parental monitoring using technology was not associated with greater parental knowledge or youth substance use initiation after controlling for youth age group (adolescent or emerging adult) and gender composition of dyads. However, in-person communication between youth and parents remained an important variable and was positively associated with parental knowledge. Youth workers could empower parents to focus on in-person communication, and not rely solely on communication using technology.

scholarly journals Relationships among parental monitoring and sensation seeking on the development of substance use disorder among college students

2013 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 1457-1463 ◽  
Author(s):  
Övgü Kaynak ◽  
Kathleen Meyers ◽  
Kimberly M. Caldeira ◽  
Kathryn B. Vincent ◽  
Ken C. Winters ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Substance Use ◽  
Substance Use Disorder ◽  
Parental Monitoring ◽  
Sensation Seeking

scholarly journals Association between substance use and personality among Mexico City’s school children aged 10-13

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Marco Tulio Suárez Maldonado ◽  
Guillermina Natera-Rey ◽  
Claudia Elena Castillo Lozada
Keyword(s):  
Substance Use ◽  
Primary Schools ◽  
Sensation Seeking ◽  
Early Adulthood ◽  
Preventive Interventions ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Factors Associated ◽  
Ex Post ◽  
Ex Post Facto ◽  
Alcohol And Other Drugs

Introduction: substance use is a problem that requires prevention strategies since childhood. It has been noticed that certain personality traits can play an important role in substance use in adolescence and early adulthood. It is essential to study the factors associated with substance use in order to develop and implement preventive interventions. Objective: to evaluate if hopelessness, sensation seeking, impulsivity and anxiety sensibility traits increase the risk of substance use (tobacco, alcohol, marihuana and inhalants) in a group of children enrolled in four primary schools in Mexico City. Methodology: cross sectional exploratory ex post facto survey in which substance use and a personality profile was assessed in a non-randomized sample of 182 children of age 10 to 13. Results: the lifetime prevalence of tobacco, alcohol and other drugs (marihuana and inhalants) use was of 4.4%, 28.6% y 5.5%, respectively. Logistic regression analysis showed that the hopelessness trait significantly increases the risk for use of tobacco (OR = 15.883) and other drugs (OR = 15.090), while the sensation seeking increases the risk of tobacco (OR = 20.856), alcohol (OR = 4.453) and other drugs (OR = 17.139). Discussion: substance use was greater than the estimation in the 2014 Nacional Survey of Drug Use in Students. Hopelessness and sensation seeking play an important role in substance use since late infancy. These results have implications that can help prevention.

scholarly journals The Interactive Effects of Parental Knowledge with Impulsivity and Sensation Seeking in Adolescent Substance Use

2018 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 95-107 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charlie Rioux ◽  
Natalie Castellanos-Ryan ◽  
Sophie Parent ◽  
Frank Vitaro ◽  
Jean R. Séguin
Keyword(s):  
Substance Use ◽  
Sensation Seeking ◽  
Parental Knowledge ◽  
Interactive Effects ◽  
Adolescent Substance Use ◽  
Adolescent Substance

Trend analyses suggest gender-focused, peer-aware, and parent-targeted interventions could reduce teenage e-cigarette use

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joan Hanafin ◽  
Salome Sunday ◽  
Luke Clancy
Keyword(s):  
Parental Monitoring ◽  
Significant Risk ◽  
Peer Influences ◽  
Cigarette Use ◽  
Targeted Interventions ◽  
Rate Of Increase ◽  
School Survey ◽  
Increasing Risk ◽  
Never Smokers ◽  
Alcohol And Other Drugs

Abstract E-cigarette ever-use and current-use among teenagers has been increasing worldwide, including in Ireland. Boys are widely observed to have increased prevalence compared with girls.We use data from two waves of the European School Survey Project on Alcohol and other Drugs (ESPAD) in Ireland and focus on gender and teenage e-cigarette use. We examine changes in ever and current-use among 16-year-olds (n = 3,421) between 2015 and 2019. We use multivariable logistic regression analyses to explore relative and gendered effects of covariates on teenage e-cigarette use.E-cigarette ever-use increased from 23–39% and current-use from 10–18%, (in 2015 vs 2019, respectively). The rate of increase in ever-use is significantly greater for girls AOR 2.67 (C.I. 2.02, 3.54) vs 2.04 (C.I. 1.55, 2.68) for boys. Smoking and e-cigarette use are linked but never-smokers who try e-cigarettes have risen from 33–67%. Peer smoking is also significantly associated with e-cigarette ever- and current-use, particularly for boys if “Most/All friends smoke” AOR 5.90 (C.I. 3.31, 10.52) vs 3.50 (C.I. 1.79, 6.84) for girls. Less parental monitoring is associated with greater e-cigarette use, for boys AOR 5.50 (C.I. 2.85, 10.61) vs AOR 5.31 (C.I. 3.01, 9.37) for girls.Boys currently have a higher prevalence of e-cigarette use but girls are increasingly at risk. Targeting by industry through advertising, gaming and social media may contribute to use. Peer influences and parental monitoring are significant risk factors for use and provide a mechanism for intervention to prevent an increasing risk of nicotine addiction.

Construct Validity of Sensation Seeking: A Psychometric Investigation

1999 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 155-171 ◽  
Author(s):  
André Beauducel ◽  
Burkhard Brocke ◽  
Alexander Strobel ◽  
Anja Strobel
Keyword(s):  
Substance Use ◽  
Construct Validity ◽  
Psychometric Properties ◽  
Factor Structure ◽  
Sensation Seeking ◽  
German Version ◽  
Trait Theory ◽  
Multilevel Theory ◽  
Sensation Seeking Scale ◽  
Psychometric Investigation

Abstract: Zuckerman postulated a biopsychological multilevel theory of Sensation Seeking, which is part of a more complex multi-trait theory, the Alternative Five. The Sensation Seeking Scale Form V (SSS V) was developed for the measurement of Sensation Seeking. The process of validation of Sensation Seeking as part of a multilevel theory includes analyses of relations within and between several levels of measurement. The present study investigates validity and basic psychometric properties of a German version of the SSS V in a broader context of psychometric traits. - The 120 participants were mainly students. They completed the SSS V, the Venturesomeness- and Impulsiveness-Scales of the IVE, the BIS/BAS-Scales, the ZKPQ and the NEO-FFI. - The results reveal acceptable psychometric properties for the SSS V but with limitations with regard to factor structure. Indications for criterion validity were obtained by prediction of substance use by the subscales Dis and BS. The results of a MTMM analysis, especially the convergent validities of the SSS V were quite satisfying. On the whole, the results yielded sufficient support for the validity of the Sensation Seeking construct or the instrument respectively. They also point to desirable modifications.

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