Greater delay discounting and cannabis coping motives are associated with more frequent cannabis use in a large sample of adult cannabis users.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Self-regulation deficits expressed through a decreased ability to value future rewards (delay discounting (DD)) and impaired emotion regulation (negative urgency (NU), cannabis coping motives (CCM), and anxiety sensitivity (AS)) relate to more frequent or problematic cannabis use. However, there is a need to better understand how self-regulation and emotion regulation constructs reflect competition between deliberative and reactive systems that drive individual differences in cannabis use patterns. Further, few studies assess frequency of cannabis use within and across days of use, which may obscure differentiation of individual differences.

Methods

In a large national sample of 2545 cannabis users, Latent Class Analysis was used to derive participant sub-classes

SUBMITTER: Sofis MJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7147078 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature