Titre : | Patterns of drug use and sensation-seeking among adolescents in Norway (1989) |
Titre traduit : | (Types d'usage de drogues et recherche de sensation chez les adolescents norvégiens) |
Auteurs : | W. PEDERSEN ; S. E. CLAUSEN ; N. J. LAVIK |
Type de document : | Article : Périodique |
Dans : | Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica (Vol.79, n°4, April 1989) |
Article en page(s) : | 386-390 |
Langues: | Anglais |
Discipline : | EPI (Epidémiologie / Epidemiology) |
Mots-clés : |
Thésaurus mots-clés CONSOMMATION ; ADOLESCENT ; RECHERCHE DE SENSATION ; MILIEU SCOLAIRE ; ENQUETE ; POLYCONSOMMATION ; CONDUITE A RISQUE ; EPIDEMIOLOGIEThésaurus géographique NORVEGE |
Résumé : | The relationship between personality and drug use was investigated by studying patterns of sensation-seeking behaviour and drug use among adolescents. A questionnaire was distributed to a sample of 1027 Norwegian senior high school students aged 16 to 19 in the greater Oslo area. The response rate was 97%. The sensation-seeking subscores showed moderate to strong association with the use of the different drugs. A canonical correlation analysis yielded 3 significant variates: in the drug use domain the first dimension correlated with the use of legal drugs and inhalants, the second with cannabis and tranquillizers and the third with tobacco. In the sensation-seeking domain the first dimension was almost synonymous with the disinhibition scale, the second with experience-seeking, and the third correlated highly negatively with thrill-, adventure- and experience-seeking. The results support the assumption that a strong link exists between sensation seeking and drug use. They further show the importance of taking different subdimensions of the sensation-seeking trait into account for prevention and treatment of drug use and abuse. |
Domaine : | Plusieurs produits / Several products |
Refs biblio. : | 12 |
Affiliation : | Department of Psychiatry, University of Oslo, Norway |
Numéro Toxibase : | 1300412 |
Centre Emetteur : | 13 OFDT |
Cote : | A00485 |
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