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Needle‐Sharing: A Longitudinal Study of Psychosocial Risk and Protective Factors
Author(s) -
Brook David W.,
Brook Judith S.,
Whiteman Martin,
Wynn S.,
Masci Joseph R.,
Roberto Josephine,
Catalogne Jacques de,
Amundsen Frances
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
the american journal on addictions
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.997
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1521-0391
pISSN - 1055-0496
DOI - 10.1111/j.1521-0391.1996.tb00304.x
Subject(s) - psychosocial , psychology , personality , clinical psychology , longitudinal study , social psychology , medicine , psychiatry , pathology
The authors examined the psychosocial correlates of needle‐sharing behavior at two points in time ( T 1 and T 2 ) by use of a prospective longitudinal design. Subjects were 278 male intravenous drug users, 111 of whom were HIV‐positive. All subjects were given structured questionnaires by trained, ethnically matched interviewers. Pearson correlation coefficients (rs) and hierarchical regression analyses were done to examine interrelationships among T 1 psychosocial domains, T 1 needle‐sharing, and T 2 needle‐sharing. T 1 psychosocial/personality factors predicting T 2 needle‐sharing included unconventionality, poor emotional control, and poor intrapsychic functioning. The relationship of T 1 needle‐sharing to T 2 needle‐sharing was buffered by the T 1 psychosocial protective factors. The findings supported a mediational model, in which personality and peer factors predicted T 1 needle‐sharing, which served as the mediator for T 2 needle‐sharing. (American Journal on Addictions 1996; 5:209–219)