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Stability of and change in substance use risk personality: Gender differences and smoking cigarettes among early adolescents

OBJECTIVE: Adolescents show a steadily increasing inclination toward health risk behaviors, including smoking cigarettes. There is ample evidence that personality traits are related to smoking behavior. However, less is known about the stability of and change in these personality traits during early...

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Autores principales: Mathijssen, J.J.P, Rozema, A.D., Hiemstra, M., Jansen, M.W.J., van Oers, J.A.M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8196044/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34159249
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.abrep.2021.100360
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author Mathijssen, J.J.P
Rozema, A.D.
Hiemstra, M.
Jansen, M.W.J.
van Oers, J.A.M.
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description OBJECTIVE: Adolescents show a steadily increasing inclination toward health risk behaviors, including smoking cigarettes. There is ample evidence that personality traits are related to smoking behavior. However, less is known about the stability of and change in these personality traits during early adolescence and whether smoking behavior affects the developmental trajectories. Moreover, less is known about the influence of gender on the course of personality. METHOD: Longitudinal data of three waves were used from 1121 early adolescents. To measure personality, the Substance Use Risk Profile Scale was used. Individual growth curve models were conducted to measure the stability, mean-level change and individual differences in change for personality. RESULTS: Stability of personality was moderate for boys and ranged from moderate to high for girls. On average early adolescents became more impulsive and more sensation seeking over a period of 18 months. Furthermore, hopelessness for girls increased and the increase in sensation seeking was higher for girls than for boys. Third, smoking behavior was related to all personality traits, indicating that smoking adolescents are more anxious, hopeless, impulsive and sensation seeking than non-smoking adolescents. CONCLUSIONS: Our results are in line with the disruption hypothesis, i.e., during early adolescence there is a dip in personality maturity. There are clear differences between girls and boys in stability of and change in personality traits. Besides, although smoking behavior is related to personality, the change in personality is probably related to other variables.
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spelling pubmed-81960442021-06-21 Stability of and change in substance use risk personality: Gender differences and smoking cigarettes among early adolescents Mathijssen, J.J.P Rozema, A.D. Hiemstra, M. Jansen, M.W.J. van Oers, J.A.M. Addict Behav Rep Research paper OBJECTIVE: Adolescents show a steadily increasing inclination toward health risk behaviors, including smoking cigarettes. There is ample evidence that personality traits are related to smoking behavior. However, less is known about the stability of and change in these personality traits during early adolescence and whether smoking behavior affects the developmental trajectories. Moreover, less is known about the influence of gender on the course of personality. METHOD: Longitudinal data of three waves were used from 1121 early adolescents. To measure personality, the Substance Use Risk Profile Scale was used. Individual growth curve models were conducted to measure the stability, mean-level change and individual differences in change for personality. RESULTS: Stability of personality was moderate for boys and ranged from moderate to high for girls. On average early adolescents became more impulsive and more sensation seeking over a period of 18 months. Furthermore, hopelessness for girls increased and the increase in sensation seeking was higher for girls than for boys. Third, smoking behavior was related to all personality traits, indicating that smoking adolescents are more anxious, hopeless, impulsive and sensation seeking than non-smoking adolescents. CONCLUSIONS: Our results are in line with the disruption hypothesis, i.e., during early adolescence there is a dip in personality maturity. There are clear differences between girls and boys in stability of and change in personality traits. Besides, although smoking behavior is related to personality, the change in personality is probably related to other variables. Elsevier 2021-06-04 /pmc/articles/PMC8196044/ /pubmed/34159249 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.abrep.2021.100360 Text en © 2021 The Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Rozema, A.D.
Hiemstra, M.
Jansen, M.W.J.
van Oers, J.A.M.
Stability of and change in substance use risk personality: Gender differences and smoking cigarettes among early adolescents
title Stability of and change in substance use risk personality: Gender differences and smoking cigarettes among early adolescents
title_full Stability of and change in substance use risk personality: Gender differences and smoking cigarettes among early adolescents
title_fullStr Stability of and change in substance use risk personality: Gender differences and smoking cigarettes among early adolescents
title_full_unstemmed Stability of and change in substance use risk personality: Gender differences and smoking cigarettes among early adolescents
title_short Stability of and change in substance use risk personality: Gender differences and smoking cigarettes among early adolescents
title_sort stability of and change in substance use risk personality: gender differences and smoking cigarettes among early adolescents
topic Research paper
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8196044/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34159249
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.abrep.2021.100360
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