University of Southern California, Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work, Los Angeles CA. USC Center for Artificial Intelligence in Society, USC Center for Mindfulness Science, USC Institute for Addiction Science, United States.
University of Southern California, Department of Psychology, USC Institute for Addiction Science, United States.
J Anxiety Disord. 2020 Dec;76:102320. doi: 10.1016/j.janxdis.2020.102320. Epub 2020 Sep 28.
Individuals may drink or use cannabis to cope with social anxiety, and drinking or using cannabis prior to social situations (e.g., pregaming) may be a way to limit the experience of anxiety when entering social settings. However, theoretical and empirical work has reported mixed associations between social anxiety and substance use, specifically alcohol and cannabis. Little work has looked at how other variables, such as impulsivity (a central component to high risk drinking such as pregaming), may shed light onto these mixed findings. College students who reported past year pregaming (n = 363) completed self-report surveys. Supporting prior work, we found that social anxiety was associated with fewer pregaming days, even among those high in sensation seeking. However, those reporting higher social anxiety also reported higher cannabis use during pregaming, specifically among those who reported high sensation seeking and high positive urgency. Results suggest specific facets of impulsivity may affect the association between social anxiety and cannabis use during high risk drinking events.
个体可能会通过饮酒或使用大麻来应对社交焦虑，在社交场合（例如，pre-game）前饮酒或使用大麻可能是一种在进入社交环境时限制焦虑体验的方式。然而，理论和实证工作报告了社交焦虑与物质使用之间的混合关联，特别是酒精和大麻。很少有研究关注其他变量（如冲动性（高风险饮酒，如 pre-game 的核心组成部分））如何阐明这些混合发现。报告过去一年有 pre-game 行为的大学生（n=363）完成了自我报告调查。支持先前的工作，我们发现社交焦虑与更少的 pre-game 天数有关，即使在那些寻求刺激较高的人中也是如此。然而，那些报告社交焦虑较高的人也报告在 pre-game 期间大麻使用量较高，特别是在那些报告寻求刺激和积极冲动较高的人中。结果表明，冲动的特定方面可能会影响社交焦虑与高风险饮酒事件期间大麻使用之间的关联。
