Anxiety sensitivity and cannabis use motives among trauma-exposed young adult cannabis users.

ABSTRACT:

Background and objectives

Anxiety sensitivity, or fear of anxious arousal, may be an important risk factor for problematic cannabis use. Specifically, anxiety sensitivity may motivate cannabis use to cope with distress, particularly among trauma-exposed individuals. The current study tested associations among anxiety sensitivity, its subdomains, and cannabis use motives in a sample of trauma-exposed cannabis users. We hypothesized elevated anxiety sensitivity, particularly cognitive concerns, would be associated with increased maladaptive coping use motives, after covarying for the number of traumas and cannabis use quantity.

Method

Hypotheses were tested in a cross-sectional study of trauma-exposed young adult cannabis users (N = 56) (M_age  = 20.7 years, 59% wome

SUBMITTER: Short NA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9117414 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature