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The concept of temperament in psychoactive substance use among college students.

Abstract：

BACKGROUND:Substance abuse is among the leading causes of preventable diseases and premature death but reasons and conditions leading to substance abuse are complex and multifaceted. Different models of abuse and dependence assume an underlying emotional vulnerability. Individual behavioral and emotional reactivity patterns of personality are considered in the concept of temperament but studies linking different types of temperament with substance use are rare. METHODS:In this study we investigated 1380 inhabitants (59.7% females; 40.3% males) of residential student homes in Austria, using Akiskals TEMPS-M auto-questionnaire. Further, we administered the CAGE- and the HSI-questionnaire and assessed other psychoactive substance use to examine associations between traits of temperament and substance abuse using ordered logistic regression. RESULTS:Temperaments follow different distributions in both genders: Women have higher scores on the depressive, cyclothymic, and anxious subscales and lower scores on the hyperthymic scale than men. The cyclothymic and particularly irritable temperament serve as predictors of self-reported nicotine dependence, alcohol abuse and cannabis use. Interestingly, the depressive temperament seems to be protective against self-reported cannabis use. LIMITATIONS:Substance abuse assessment is based on self-reports only and urine drug and blood tests were not performed. Also, the history of substance abuse is not documented thus temperamental factors could have been influenced by substance abuse if the time of onset was in early adolescence. The study design was cross-sectional, thus limiting causal interpretations. CONCLUSIONS:It might be important to consider temperamental traits as protective- and risk factors in the etiology, prevention and therapy of substance abuse in future.

journal_name

J Affect Disord

journal_title

Journal of affective disorders

authors

Unseld M,Dworschak G,Tran US,Plener PL,Erfurth A,Walter H,Lesch OM,Kapusta ND

doi

10.1016/j.jad.2012.03.028

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2012-12-10 00:00:00

pages

324-30

issue

2-3

eissn

0165-0327

issn

1573-2517

pii

S0165-0327(12)00224-8

journal_volume

141

pub_type

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The concept of temperament in psychoactive substance use among college students.