Department of Educational Psychology, Counseling, and Special Education, College of Education, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA.
The Edna Bennett Pierce Prevention Research Center, College of Health and Human Development, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA.
Subst Use Misuse. 2022;57(12):1873-1881. doi: 10.1080/10826084.2022.2120362. Epub 2022 Sep 9.
: Prevalence of alcohol and marijuana use is highest in young adulthood and an increasing number of young adults report simultaneous alcohol and marijuana (SAM) use, which is consistently linked with numerous negative consequences. To better understand reasons for engaging in SAM use and to refine measurement of subjective effects of SAM use, this study aimed to identify (1) how young adults describe subjective experiences during a SAM use occasion and (2) how language describing subjective effects changes as a function of level of alcohol and marijuana use. : Using Amazon's Mechanical Turk (MTurk), 323 participants (53.6% women, 68.4% White, age = 23.0 years) who reported past-month heavy episodic drinking and past-month SAM use were asked to list words to describe how they feel when using only alcohol, only marijuana, and various combinations of alcohol and marijuana. : SAM use language varied as a function of age and substance use behavior but was not associated with sex or race. Large differences in the terms used to describe subjective effects were observed when comparing different combinations of alcohol and marijuana use; most notably the term "cross-faded" appeared primarily when engaging at the heaviest combinations of alcohol and marijuana. : Young adults have a wide range of vocabulary for describing subjective effects of SAM use, and subjective effects vary as a function of the level of each substance used. Future research should consider integrating such contemporary language when measuring subjective effects of SAM use.
: 酒精和大麻的使用在青年期最为普遍，越来越多的年轻人报告同时使用酒精和大麻（SAM），这与许多负面后果密切相关。为了更好地了解年轻人同时使用 SAM 的原因，并改进 SAM 使用的主观效果的测量，本研究旨在确定：(1) 年轻人在 SAM 使用期间如何描述主观体验；(2) 随着酒精和大麻使用量的变化，描述主观效果的语言如何变化。: 使用亚马逊的 Mechanical Turk (MTurk)，我们招募了 323 名参与者（53.6%为女性，68.4%为白人，年龄为 23.0 岁），他们报告过去一个月有重度饮酒和过去一个月有 SAM 使用。要求他们列出描述仅使用酒精、仅使用大麻以及各种酒精和大麻组合时的感觉的词汇。: SAM 使用的语言因年龄和物质使用行为而异，但与性别或种族无关。当比较不同的酒精和大麻使用组合时，观察到用于描述主观效果的术语存在很大差异；当同时使用酒精和大麻最严重的组合时，最显著的术语是“cross-faded（交叉淡化）”。: 年轻人在描述 SAM 使用的主观效果时有广泛的词汇，主观效果随每种物质使用量的变化而变化。未来的研究应该考虑在测量 SAM 使用的主观效果时整合这种现代语言。
