Parenting styles and metacognitions as predictors of cannabis use.

ABSTRACT: Metacognitions, the beliefs held about internal mental processes and the strategies aimed at controlling such processes, are known to play a significant role in the development and maintenance of addictive behaviours. Specifically, lack of cognitive confidence and beliefs about the need to control thoughts have been implicated across addictive behaviours. No research to date, though, has explored the role of metacognitions in cannabis use. Research has also shown that an authoritarian parenting style (where a parent uncompromisingly enforces their own ideas regardless of the will of the child) may be correlated with addictive behaviours. However very limited research has investigated the role of parenting styles in cannabis use. In the current study we aimed to investigate the relative con

SUBMITTER: Brosnan T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7244916 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature