Big Five personality traits and illicit drug use: Specificity in trait-drug associations.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

High neuroticism, low agreeableness, and low conscientiousness are consistent correlates of drug use, though such patterns may be due to common familial influences rather than effects of personality per se. The present study aimed to explore associations of Big Five traits with various forms of drug use independent of confounding familial influences by leveraging differences within twin pairs to identify potentially causal (i.e., within-pair) effects of personality on use.

Method

980 same-sex twin pairs from the Australian Twin Registry Cohort III (M_age = 31.70, 71% female) were interviewed regarding lifetime (mis)use of cannabis, cocaine/crack, prescription and illicit stimulants, prescription and illicit opioids, sedatives, hallucinogens, dissoc

SUBMITTER: Dash GF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9091062 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature