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Associations Between Trait Boredom and Frequency of Cannabis, Alcohol, and Tobacco Use in College Students

OBJECTIVE: Boredom is a common emotion associated with substance use in college students – a group already at risk for substance misuse. The purpose of this study is to understand how two types of trait boredom (susceptibility and proneness) in college students are associated with frequency of canna...

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Autores principales: Doering, Erica L., Weybright, Elizabeth, Anderson, Alana J., Murphy, Kyle, Caldwell, Linda
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Research Society on Marijuana 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10683743/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/38035167
http://dx.doi.org/10.26828/cannabis/2023/000177
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author Doering, Erica L.
Weybright, Elizabeth
Anderson, Alana J.
Murphy, Kyle
Caldwell, Linda
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description OBJECTIVE: Boredom is a common emotion associated with substance use in college students – a group already at risk for substance misuse. The purpose of this study is to understand how two types of trait boredom (susceptibility and proneness) in college students are associated with frequency of cannabis, alcohol, and tobacco use. METHOD: Data were collected from an online survey completed by a sample of undergraduate students (N = 414, M(age) = 19.55, 84.5% female; 64.3% White) enrolled at a large public university in the northwest. Multivariate logistic regression was used to evaluate the association between trait boredom and frequency of cannabis, alcohol, and tobacco use after controlling for age, sex, and race. RESULTS: Boredom susceptibility was a significant predictor of annual, monthly, and weekly cannabis and alcohol use, but only annual and monthly tobacco use. Boredom proneness was only a significant predictor for monthly alcohol use. CONCLUSIONS: Findings were generally consistent across types of substances and frequency of use for boredom susceptibility, indicating students higher in susceptibility, rather than proneness, are a subgroup to target prevention interventions to alleviate boredom and subsequent maladaptive coping mechanisms.
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spelling pubmed-106837432023-11-30 Associations Between Trait Boredom and Frequency of Cannabis, Alcohol, and Tobacco Use in College Students Doering, Erica L. Weybright, Elizabeth Anderson, Alana J. Murphy, Kyle Caldwell, Linda Cannabis Research Article OBJECTIVE: Boredom is a common emotion associated with substance use in college students – a group already at risk for substance misuse. The purpose of this study is to understand how two types of trait boredom (susceptibility and proneness) in college students are associated with frequency of cannabis, alcohol, and tobacco use. METHOD: Data were collected from an online survey completed by a sample of undergraduate students (N = 414, M(age) = 19.55, 84.5% female; 64.3% White) enrolled at a large public university in the northwest. Multivariate logistic regression was used to evaluate the association between trait boredom and frequency of cannabis, alcohol, and tobacco use after controlling for age, sex, and race. RESULTS: Boredom susceptibility was a significant predictor of annual, monthly, and weekly cannabis and alcohol use, but only annual and monthly tobacco use. Boredom proneness was only a significant predictor for monthly alcohol use. CONCLUSIONS: Findings were generally consistent across types of substances and frequency of use for boredom susceptibility, indicating students higher in susceptibility, rather than proneness, are a subgroup to target prevention interventions to alleviate boredom and subsequent maladaptive coping mechanisms. Research Society on Marijuana 2023-11-03 /pmc/articles/PMC10683743/ /pubmed/38035167 http://dx.doi.org/10.26828/cannabis/2023/000177 Text en © 2023 Authors et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction, provided the original author and source are credited, the original sources is not modified, and the source is not used for commercial purposes.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10683743/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/38035167
http://dx.doi.org/10.26828/cannabis/2023/000177
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