Reasons for Drug and Alcohol Use by College Students
- 1 January 1980
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in International Journal of the Addictions
- Vol. 15 (4) , 489-498
- https://doi.org/10.3109/10826088009040032
Abstract
Interest in examining more precisely the relationships between specific motives for drug and alcohol use and personality prompted the undertaking of this study. By means of a series of canonical correlation analyses, patterns of self-attributed reasons for drug and alcohol use were interrelated to a battery of individual difference variables drawn from the domains of personality needs, daydreaming and mental style, optimal level of stimulation, and locus of control. Drug and alcohol use are linked to individual differences in a more complex way than is typically studied.This publication has 8 references indexed in Scilit:
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