A risk model for addictive behaviors in adolescents: interactions between personality and learning.

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND AND AIMS:To determine whether transdiagnostic risk, represented as elevations in one high-risk personality trait, interacts with behavior-specific risk, represented as elevated expectancies for reinforcement from either drinking or smoking, to account partly for early adolescent drinking and smoking behavior. DESIGN:Multiple regression analysis. SETTING:Twenty-three public schools in two school systems in the United States. PARTICIPANTS:A sample of 1897 adolescents tested in the spring of 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th and 9th grades. MEASUREMENTS:Transdiagnostic risk was measured as negative urgency, the tendency to act rashly when distressed, using the UPPS-P child version. Drinking-specific and smoking-specific risk were measured as expectancies for reinforcement from drinking and smokin

SUBMITTER: D'Agostino AR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6548603 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature