Yan Florence, Costello Meghan, Allen Joseph
University of Virginia.
J Drug Issues. 2020 Oct;50(4):538-549. doi: 10.1177/0022042620941812. Epub 2020 Jul 16.
This study assessed self-perception as a long-term predictor of relative changes in problems related to alcohol and marijuana use in early adulthood. Self-report questionnaires were completed by a community sample of 124 individuals in the Southeastern United States who were followed longitudinally from age 19 to age 27. More problems due to substance use at age 27 were predicted by participants' negative perceptions of their social acceptance, romantic appeal, and self-worth. Predictions remained after accounting for potential confounds including gender, income, and baseline substance use problems at age 19. Social avoidance and distress in new situations at age 19 mediated the relationship between self-perception and relative changes in substance use problems, such that increases in substance use problems from age 19 to 27 were potentially explainable by the linkage of negative self-perceptions to social avoidance and distress in new situations.
本研究评估了自我认知作为成年早期与酒精和大麻使用相关问题相对变化的长期预测指标。美国东南部的124名个体组成的社区样本完成了自我报告问卷，这些个体从19岁到27岁接受了纵向跟踪。参与者对自己社会接受度、浪漫吸引力和自我价值的负面认知预测了27岁时更多因物质使用导致的问题。在考虑了包括性别、收入和19岁时的基线物质使用问题等潜在混杂因素后，预测结果依然成立。19岁时在新情境中的社交回避和苦恼介导了自我认知与物质使用问题相对变化之间的关系，即从19岁到27岁物质使用问题的增加可能可以通过负面自我认知与新情境中的社交回避和苦恼之间的联系来解释。
