959
Views
23
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Original Articles

Marijuana Motivations Across Adolescence: Impacts on Use and Consequences

, &

REFERENCES

  • Ajzen, I. (1985). From intentions to actions: A theory of planned behavior. In J. Kuhl & J. Beckmann (Eds.), Action control: From cognition to behavior (pp. 11–39). New York: Springer-Verlag.
  • Allison, P. D. (2012). Longitudinal data analysis using Stata. Haverford, PA: Statistical Horizons.
  • Anderson, K. G., Briggs, K. M., & White, H. R. (2013). Motives to drink or not to drink: Longitudinal relations among personality, motives and alcohol use across adolescence and early adulthood. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 37, 860–867.
  • Anderson, K. G., Grunwald, I., Bekman, N. M., Brown, S. A., & Grant, A. (2011). To drink or not to drink: Motives and expectancies for use and nonuse in adolescence. Addictive Behaviors, 36, 972–979.
  • Bekman, N. M., Anderson, K. G., Trim, R. S., Metrik, J., Diulio, A. R., Myers, M. G., … Brown, S. A. (2011). Thinking and drinking: Alcohol-related cognitions across stages of adolescent alcohol involvement. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 25, 415–425.
  • Bonn-Miller, M. O., Zvolensky, M. J., & Bernstein, A. (2007). Marijuana use motives: Concurrent relations to frequency of past 30-day use and anxiety sensitivity among young adult marijuana smokers. Addictive Behaviors, 32, 49–62.
  • Brook, J. S., Adams, R. E., Balka, E. B., & Johnson, E. (2002). Early adolescent marijuana use: risks for the transition to young adulthood. Psychological Medicine, 32, 79–91.
  • Brook, J. S., Balka, E. B., & Whiteman, M. (1999). The risks for late adolescence of early adolescent marijuana use. American Journal of Public Health, 89, 1549–1554.
  • Buckner, J. D., Bonn-Miller, M. O., Zvolensky, M. J., & Schmidt, N. B. (2007). Marijuana use motives and social anxiety among marijuana-using young adults. Addictive Behaviors, 32, 2238–2252.
  • Carey, K. B., & Correia, C. J. (1997). Drinking motives predict alcohol problems in college students. Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, 58, 100–105.
  • Chabrol, H., Ducongé, E., Casas, C., Roura, C., & Carey, K. B. (2005). Relations between cannabis use and dependence, motives for cannabis use and anxious, depressive and borderline symptomatology. Addictive Behaviors, 30, 829–840.
  • Chen, C., & Anthony, J. C. (2003). Possible age-associated bias in reporting of clinical features of drug dependence: Epidemiological evidence on adolescent-onset marijuana use. Addiction, 98, 71–82.
  • Chen, K., & Kandel, D. B. (1998). Predictors of cessation of marijuana use: An event history analysis. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 50, 109–121.
  • Conrod, P. J., Castellanos-Ryan, N., & Strang, J. (2012). Brief, personality-targeted coping skills interventions prolong survival as a non-drug user over a two-year period during adolescence. Archives of General Psychiatry, 67, 85–93.
  • Cooper, M. L. (1994). Motivations for alcohol use among adolescents: Development and validation of a four-factor model. Psychological Assessment, 6, 117–128.
  • Danseco, E. R., Kingery, P. M., & Coggeshall, M. B. (1999). Perceived risk of harm from marijuana use among youth in the USA. School Psychology International, 20, 39–56.
  • Dash, G. F., & Anderson, K. G. (2014). Marijuana use, motives, and change intentions in adolescents. Poster presented at the College on Problems of Drug Dependence Annual Meeting. San Juan, Puerto Rico.
  • Dunn, M. E., & Goldman, M.S. (1998). Age and drinking-related differences in the memory organization of alcohol expectancies in 3rd-, 6th-, 9th-, and 12th-grade children. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 66, 579–585.
  • Ellickson, P. L., Martino, S. C., & Collins, R. L. (2004). Marijuana use from adolescence to young adulthood: Multiple developmental trajectories and their associated outcomes. Health Psychology, 23, 299–307.
  • Ellickson, P. L., Tucker, J. S., Klein, M. S., & Saner, H. (2004). Antecedents and outcomes of marijuana use initiation during adolescence. Preventative Medicine, 39, 976–984.
  • Fiellin, L. E., Tetrault, J. M., Becker, W. C., Fiellin, D. A., & Hoff, R. A. (2013). Previous use of alcohol, cigarettes, and marijuana and subsequent abuse of prescription opioids in young adults. Journal of Adolescent Health, 52, 158–163.
  • Fountain, J., Bartlett, H., Griffiths, P., Gossop, M., Boys, A., & Strang, J. (1999). Why say no? Reasons given by young people for not using drugs. Addiction Research and Theory, 7, 339–353.
  • Fox, C. L., Towe, S. L., Stephens, R. S., Walker, D. D., & Roffman, R. A. (2001). Motives for cannabis use in high-risk adolescent users. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 25, 492–500.
  • Gruber, S. A., Sagar, K. A., Dahlgren, M., Racine, M., & Lukas, S. E. (2012). Age of onset of marijuana use and executive function. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 26, 496–506.
  • Hammer, T., & Vaglum, P. (1990). Initiation, continuation or discontinuation of cannabis use in the general population. British Journal of Addiction, 85, 899–909.
  • Horwitz, A. V., White, H. R., & Howell-White, S. (1996). The use of multiple outcomes in stress research: A case study of gender differences in responses to marital dissolution. Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 37, 278–291.
  • Johnston, L. D., O'Malley, P. M., Meich, R. A., Bachman, J. G., & Schulenberg, J. E. (2014). Monitoring the Future national survey results on drug use, 1975–2013: Overview, Key Findings. Ann Arbor: Institute for Social Research, The University of Michigan.
  • Kuntsche, E., Knibbe, R., Gmel, G., & Engels, R. (2005). Why do young people drink? A review of drinking motives. Clinical Psychology Review, 25, 841–861.
  • Kuntsche, E., Knibbe, R., Gmel, G., & Engels, R. (2006). Replication and validation of the drinking motive questionnaire revised (DMQ-R. Cooper, 1994) among adolescents in Switzerland. European Addiction Research, 12, 161–168.
  • Lee, C. M., Neighbors, C., & Woods, B. A. (2007). Marijuana motives: Young adults’ reasons for using marijuana. Addictive Behaviors, 32, 1384–1394.
  • Littlefield, A. K., Sher, K. J., & Wood, P. K. (2010). Do changes in drinking motives mediate the relation between personality change and “maturing out” of problem drinking? Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 119, 93–105.
  • McCabe, S. E., Boyd, C. J., Cranford, J. A., & Teter, C. J. (2009). Motives for nonmedical use of prescription opioids among high school seniors in the United States: Self-treatment and beyond. Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, 163, 739–744.
  • Meier, M. H., Caspi, A., Ambler, A., Harrington, H., Houts, R., Keefe, R. S. … Moffitt, T. E. (2012). Persistent cannabis users show neuropsychological decline from childhood to midlife. Proceedings on the National Academy of Sciences, 109, 2657–2664.
  • Metrik, J., Frissell, K. C., McCarthy, D. M., D'Amico, E. J., & Brown, S.A. (2003). Strategies for reduction and cessation of alcohol use: Adolescent preferences. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 27, 74–80.
  • Naar-King, S., & Suarez, M. (2011). Introduction: Why motivational interviewing with adolescents and young adults? In S. Naar-King & M. Suarez (Eds.), Motivational interviewing with adolescents and young adults (pp. 3–9). New York: Guilford Press.
  • Newcomb, M. D., Chou, C., Bentler, P. M., & Huba, G. J. (1988). Cognitive motivations for drug use among adolescents: Longitudinal tests of gender differences and predictors of change in drug use. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 35, 426–438.
  • Pandina, R. J., Labouvie, E., & White, H. R. (1984). Potential contributions of the lifespan developmental approach to the study of adolescent alcohol and drug use: the Rutgers Health and Human Development Project, a working model. Journal of Drug Issues, 14, 253–268.
  • Patrick, M. E., Schulenberg, J. E., O'Malley, P. M., Johnston, L. D., & Bachman, J. G. (2011). Adolescents’ reported reasons for alcohol and marijuana use as predictors of substance use and problems in adulthood. Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, 72, 106–116.
  • Pope, H. G., Gruber, A. J., Hudson, J. I., Cohane, G., Huestis, M. A., & Yurgelun-Todd, D. A. (2003). Early-onset cannabis use and cognitive deficits: What is the nature of the association? Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 69, 303–310.
  • Rosenburg, H., Bonar, E. E., Pavlick, M., Jones, L. D., Hoffman, E., Murray, S. … Baylen, C. (2012). Associations between university students’ reported reasons for abstinence from illicit substances and type of drug. Journal of College Student Development, 53, 91–105.
  • Shrier, L. A., Walls, C., Rhoads, A., & Blood, E. A. (2013). Individual and contextual predictors of severity of marijuana use events among young frequent users. Addictive Behaviors, 38, 1448–1456.
  • Simons, J., Correia, C. J., & Carey, K. B. (2000). A comparison of motives for marijuana and alcohol use among experienced users. Addictive Behaviors, 25, 153–160.
  • Simons, J., Correia, C. J., Carey, K. B., & Borsari, B. E. (1998). Validating a five-factor marijuana motives measure: Relations with use, problems, and alcohol motives. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 45, 265–273.
  • Simons, J. S., Gaher, R. M., Correia, C. J., Hansen, C. L., & Christopher, M. S. (2005). An affective-motivational model of marijuana and alcohol problems among college students. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 19, 326–334.
  • StataCorp. 2011. Stata statistical software: Release 12. College Station, TX: StataCorp LP.
  • Swan, M., Schwartz, S., Berg, B., Walker, D., Stephens, R., & Roffman, R. (2008). The Teen Marijuana Check-Up: An in-school protocol for eliciting voluntary self-assessment of marijuana use. Journal of Social Work Practice in Addiction, 8, 284–302.
  • Terry-McElrath, Y. M., O'Malley, P. M., & Johnston, L. D. (2008). Saying no to marijuana: Why American youth report quitting or abstaining. Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, 69, 796–805.
  • Walsh, J. (2013). Q&A: Legal marijuana in Colorado and Washington. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution.
  • Weiner, M. D., Sussman, S., McCuller, W. J., & Lichtman, K. (1999). Factors in marijuana cessation among high-risk youth. Journal of Drug Education, 29, 337–357.
  • White, H. R. (1987). Longitudinal stability and dimensional structure of problem drinking in adolescence. Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, 48, 541–550.
  • White, H. R., & Labouvie, E. W. (1989). Towards the assessment of adolescent problem drinking. Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, 50, 30–37.
  • White, H. R., Labouvie, E. W., & Papadaratsakis, V. (2005). Changes in substance use during the transition to adulthood: A comparison of college students and their noncollege age peers. Journal of Drug Issues, 35, 281–306.
  • Zvolensky, M. J., Vujanovic, A. A., Bernstein, A., Bonn-Miller, M. O., Marshall, E. C., & Leyro, T. M. (2007). Marijuana use motives: A confirmatory test and evaluation among young adult marijuana users. Addictive Behaviors, 32, 3122–3130.

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.