Brown University, Providence, RI, USA.
Emma Pendleton Bradley Hospital, Riverside, RI, USA.
Assessment. 2025 Jan;32(1):14-31. doi: 10.1177/10731911241240618. Epub 2024 Mar 28.
Operant conditioning and social learning theories suggest that positive cannabis use-related outcomes are a primary contributor to maintained use and risk for dependence. However, currently there does not exist a reliable, validated measure of positive cannabis-related outcomes. This study sought to develop and psychometrically evaluate the Positive Outcomes of Cannabis Use Scale (POCUS). We collected three samples, college students ( = 883), community adults ( = 214), and college students ( = 615), of predominantly White adults in the United States who completed an online survey. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses evaluated scale structure and identified four factors: social enhancement, mood enhancement, cognitive enhancement, and sexual enhancement. Positive outcomes were positively associated with recent use, controlling for expectancies and negative outcomes. Positive outcomes were also differentiated from positive expectancies and more influential in predicting typical use frequency. Findings indicate that the POCUS is psychometrically sound and clinically useful for measuring positive cannabis use-related outcomes among predominantly White adults in the United States.
操作性条件作用和社会学习理论表明，积极的大麻使用相关结果是维持使用和依赖风险的主要因素。然而，目前还没有可靠的、经过验证的积极大麻相关结果的衡量标准。本研究旨在开发和心理计量评估大麻使用的积极结果量表（POCUS）。我们收集了三个样本，分别是大学生（n=883）、社区成年人（n=214）和大学生（n=615），这些参与者都是来自美国的以白人为主的成年人，他们完成了一项在线调查。探索性和验证性因子分析评估了量表结构，并确定了四个因素：社交增强、情绪增强、认知增强和性增强。积极的结果与近期使用呈正相关，同时控制了预期和消极结果。积极的结果也与积极的预期不同，并更能预测典型的使用频率。研究结果表明，POCUS 在心理计量学上是可靠的，并且在美国以白人为主体的成年人中测量积极的大麻使用相关结果是具有临床意义的。
