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Undergraduate marijuana use as related to internal sensation novelty seeking and openness to experience
Author(s) -
Eisenman Russell,
Grossman Jan Carl,
Goldstein Ronald
Publication year - 1980
Publication title -
journal of clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.124
H-Index - 119
eISSN - 1097-4679
pISSN - 0021-9762
DOI - 10.1002/1097-4679(198010)36:4<1013::aid-jclp2270360434>3.0.co;2-0
Subject(s) - sensation seeking , psychology , novelty seeking , boredom , openness to experience , novelty , personality , big five personality traits , clinical psychology , social psychology , developmental psychology
Used 148 male and 130 female college students as S s and replicated and expanded upon previous findings in marijuana personality research. It was found that the greater the self‐reported frequency of marijuana use across S s, the higher the cores on creativity and adventuresomeness tests tended to be and the lower the scores on autoritarianism tended to be. Males were more frequent users than females; Jews more frequent users than Protestants or Catholics. A new variable, internal sensation novelty seeking, was found to be correlated with self‐reported frequency of marijuana use. Self‐reported length of marijuana use was not related to any of the major variables, with the singular exception that after 2 years of use, expressed boredom with the environment decreased significantly.