@article{ref1,
title="Cognitions mediate the influence of personality on adolescent cannabis use initiation",
journal="Addictive behaviors reports",
year="2022",
author="Pilin, Maya A. and Robinson, Jill M. and Young, Katie and Krank, Marvin D.",
volume="15",
number="",
pages="e100425-e100425",
abstract="AIMS: Much research indicates that an individual's personality impacts the initiation and escalation of substance use and problems in youth. The acquired-preparedness model suggests that personality influences substance use by modifying learning about substances, which then affects substance use. The current study used longitudinal data to test whether automatic cannabis-related cognitions (memory associations and outcome expectancy liking) mediate the relationship between four personality traits with later cannabis use. <br><br>METHODS: The study focused on initiation of use in a sample of adolescents who had not previously used (n = 670). <br><br>RESULTS: A structural equation model supported a full mediation effect and the hypothesis that personality affects cannabis use in youth by influencing automatic memory associations and outcome expectancy liking. Further findings from the same model also indicated a mediation effect of these cognitions in the relationship between age and cannabis use. <br><br>CONCLUSION: The findings of the study support the acquired-preparedness model where personality influences automatic associations in the context of dual-processing theories of substance use.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="2352-8532",
doi="10.1016/j.abrep.2022.100425",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.abrep.2022.100425"
}