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Abstract
The present investigation, conducted between 2005 and 2006, examined the relation between emotion dysregulation and motives for marijuana use among 136 (71 women; Mage = 20.61 years) young adult marijuana smokers. As expected, after covarying for theoretically relevant variables, the DERS–total score was significantly related to marijuana use coping motives, but no other motives for marijuana use. Further analysis indicated that the Non-acceptance of Emotional Responses subscale of the DERS accounted for the DERS-total score effect. Results are discussed in relation to better understanding the role of coping-motivated marijuana use within the context of an emotional dysregulation explanatory framework. Limitations of the study are noted.
Notes
1 The journal's style utilizes the category substance abuse as a diagnostic category. Substances are used or misused; living organisms are and can be abused. Editor's note
2 The reader is referred to Hill's nine criteria for causation which were posited to help researchers and clinicians determine if what was being focused on were causes and outcomes or were merely associated. (Hill, A. B. (1965). The environment and disease: associations or causation? Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine, 58, 295–300.) Additional criteria have been added. Editor's note