TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2022//
TI  - Cognitions mediate the influence of personality on adolescent cannabis use initiation
JO  - Addictive behaviors reports
A1  - Pilin, Maya A.
A1  - Robinson, Jill M.
A1  - Young, Katie
A1  - Krank, Marvin D.
SP  - e100425
EP  - e100425
VL  - 15
IS  - 
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 2352-8532
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.abrep.2022.100425
ID  - ref1
ER  -