Moraes Marina Carvalho de Lima, Russo Giulia Cunha, Prado Julia da Silva, Lima-Costa Ariela Raissa, Bonfá-Araujo Bruno, Schermer Julie Aitken
Department of Psychology, São Francisco University, Campinas 13045-510, Brazil.
Department of Psychology, University of Western Ontario, London, ON N6A 3K7, Canada.
Behav Sci (Basel). 2023 Sep 18;13(9):778. doi: 10.3390/bs13090778.
Substance abuse can be used as a coping strategy to manage stress related to academic activities and is a risk-taking behavior that is also associated with people with higher levels of the Dark Tetrad personality traits. Our study aimed to investigate the association between substance abuse and the Dark Tetrad in students in health and non-health sciences fields. Our sample was composed of 174 college students between 18 and 58 years old (M = 25.60; SD = 9.14). Students completed self-report psychopathy, narcissism, Machiavellianism, sadism, and substance use scales. Results suggest that men consumed more substances and scored higher on the Dark Tetrad than women. Also, when comparing fields, men from health sciences tended to score higher on dark personality traits. These results emphasize the potential risk factors associated with dark personality traits and the consumption of licit and illicit substances by college students, highlighting the need for further studies with this population and the impact of these behaviors and characteristics on future professional practice.
药物滥用可被用作应对与学术活动相关压力的一种策略，且是一种冒险行为，它还与具有较高黑暗三性格特质水平的人有关。我们的研究旨在调查健康科学和非健康科学领域学生中药物滥用与黑暗三性格之间的关联。我们的样本由174名年龄在18至58岁之间的大学生组成（M = 25.60；SD = 9.14）。学生们完成了关于精神病态、自恋、马基雅维利主义、施虐倾向以及药物使用的自我报告量表。结果表明，男性比女性使用更多药物，且在黑暗三性格上得分更高。此外，在比较不同领域时，健康科学领域的男性在黑暗人格特质上得分往往更高。这些结果强调了与黑暗人格特质以及大学生使用合法和非法药物相关的潜在风险因素，突出了对这一人群进行进一步研究的必要性，以及这些行为和特征对未来专业实践的影响。
