Download full text
(583.8Kb)
Citation Suggestion
Please use the following Persistent Identifier (PID) to cite this document:
https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-65806-7
Exports for your reference manager
Sense of coherence and substance use: examining mutual influences
[journal article]
Abstract Sense of coherence (SOC) is conceptualized as a mutable orientation to life, but has often been found a stable attribute of individual differences. While several studies have documented the relationship between SOC and substance use, nothing is known about mutual influences between both variables ove... view more
Sense of coherence (SOC) is conceptualized as a mutable orientation to life, but has often been found a stable attribute of individual differences. While several studies have documented the relationship between SOC and substance use, nothing is known about mutual influences between both variables over time in adolescence. The present study examines whether changes in SOC predict changes in substance use, or whether changes in substance use predict changes in SOC. A longitudinal cross-lagged panel design was used to inspect SOC and self-reported frequency of substance use of tobacco, alcohol, and cannabis over the course of ten years. Participants were 318 German adolescents aged 14-15 at the beginning of the study. Structural equation modeling indicated a single significant negative path from SOC to later cannabis use as well as one significant positive path from cannabis use to SOC. Despite a general association - high SOC corresponds to less substance use - SOC overall develops independently from substance use.... view less
Keywords
adolescent; alcohol consumption; tobacco consumption; drug use; health behavior; longitudinal study; self-efficacy; salutogenesis
Classification
Personality Psychology
Psychological Disorders, Mental Health Treatment and Prevention
Free Keywords
Sense of coherence; Cannabis; Cross-lagged; Longitudinal
Document language
English
Publication Year
2014
Page/Pages
p. 52-57
Journal
Personality and Individual Differences (2014) 64
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2014.02.017
ISSN
0191-8869
Status
Postprint; peer reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0