Kasarabada Nagalakshmi D., Anglin M. Douglas, Stark Elena, Paredes Alfonso
UCLA Drug Abuse Research Center, 1640 S. Sepulveda Blvd. Suite 200, Los Angeles, California 90025.
Subst Abus. 2000 Jun;21(2):67-78. doi: 10.1080/08897070009511419.
This paper examines relationships among deviant behaviors such as cocaine abuse, crime, and family history of deviance; demographics; and psychological characteristics such as aggression, sensation seeking, confidence to resist taking cocaine and risk taking tendency to use cocaine in different situations; psychiatric symptoms (e.g., depression, anxiety, obsessive-compulsiveness, somatization, attention deficit); and social characteristics such as social adjustment. The sample consisted of men, mean age 35 years, who were veterans of the armed services. Canonical correlation analysis showed three significant canonical variates: The first indicated that verbal aggression, general sensation seeking, and a problem index for situations involving urges to use cocaine were positively related to number of times arrested and negatively related to age. The second revealed that experience seeking and problem indices for situations involving urges to use cocaine and for those involving pleasant times, were positively related to last cocaine use consumption level, total lifetime grams of cocaine used, and alcohol problems of the immediate family. The third showed that verbal aggression and a problem index for risk situations for use involving pleasant times were positively related, and experience seeking was negatively related, to number of times arrested, number of times incarcerated in the previous 30 days, age, and last cocaine use level. The implications of the associations found among these variables are discussed as they pertain to prevention, treatment, and future research.
本文研究了诸如可卡因滥用、犯罪和偏差行为家族史等偏差行为之间的关系；人口统计学特征；以及心理特征，如攻击性、寻求刺激、抵制使用可卡因的信心和在不同情境下使用可卡因的冒险倾向；精神症状（如抑郁、焦虑、强迫观念、躯体化、注意力缺陷）；以及社会特征，如社会适应。样本由平均年龄35岁的男性退伍军人组成。典型相关分析显示出三个显著的典型变量：第一个表明言语攻击性、总体寻求刺激以及涉及使用可卡因冲动情境的问题指数与被捕次数呈正相关，与年龄呈负相关。第二个揭示了寻求体验以及涉及使用可卡因冲动情境和愉快时光情境的问题指数与上次可卡因使用消费水平、可卡因终生使用总量以及直系亲属的酒精问题呈正相关。第三个表明言语攻击性以及涉及愉快时光的使用风险情境的问题指数与被捕次数、前30天内被监禁次数、年龄以及上次可卡因使用水平呈正相关，而寻求体验与之呈负相关。文中讨论了这些变量之间关联的意义，涉及预防、治疗和未来研究。
