title: Cloninger's constructs related to substance use level and problems in late adolescence: a mediational model based on self-control and coping motives.
abstract: Predictions concerning mediating processes for the effects of C. R. Cloninger's (1987a) constructs were tested; criterion variables were substance use level and substance use problems. Participants were 1,225 adolescents (M age: 15.5 years). Structural modeling indicated indirect effects for novelty seeking, harm avoidance, and task reward dependence, mediated through self-control; harm avoidance also had an inverse direct path to substance use level, and social reward dependence had a positive direct path to coping motives for substance use. Good self-control had inverse paths to life events and deviant peer affiliations; poor self-control had positive paths to life events and coping motives; and risk taking had positive paths to coping motives and peer affiliations. Coping motives had a path to level and a direct path to problems; peer affiliations had a path only to substance use level.
authors.affiliation: Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University, Bronx, New York 10461, USA. wills@aecom.yu.edu
authors.forename: T A
authors.initials: TA
authors.lastname: Wills
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Sandy
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Shinar
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000293:Adolescent; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007389:Internal-External Control; D008019:Life Style; D008297:Male; D008954:Models, Biological; D009042:Motivation; D010379:Peer Group; D011582:Psychological Theory; D012307:Risk Factors; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000523:psychology*