ArticleJournal of studies on alcohol and drugs2016
Measuring Protective Behavioral Strategies for Marijuana Use Among Young Adults.
Article in Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT04978129 (Examining Motivations for and Quality of Alcohol and Marijuana Protective Behavior Strategy Use), which is not on this map. Cited by 65 papers.
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Examining Motivations for and Quality of Alcohol and Marijuana Protective Behavior Strategy Use: Improving Prevention of Hazardous Young Adult Substance Use
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65 citing papers in PubMed, 110 citations in OpenAlex.
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- A preliminary test of a brief intervention to lessen young adults' cannabis use: Episode-level smartphone data highlights the role of protective behavioral strategies and exercise.Experimental and clinical psychopharmacology · 2020Trial
- Identifying themes of protective behavioral strategies for marijuana use with structural topic modeling.Psychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors · 2026Article
- A self-determination theory perspective of motivations for cannabis-related harm reduction behaviours: evaluation of an expanded and adapted Treatment Self-Regulation Questionnaire.Psychology & health · 2026Article
- Who uses legal cannabis and why? Cluster profiles of participants in a Swiss regulated sales pilot trial.Drug and alcohol dependence reports · 2026Article
- The measurement of harm reduction goals and outcomes for substance use: Current state and future directions.Journal of prevention and health promotion · 2026Article
- Rural and Urban Variation in Mobile Health Substance Use Disorder Treatment Mechanisms and Efficacy.Rural mental health · 2026Article
- Controlled Use of Cannabis Among Young Adults in Los Angeles Across Changes in Cannabis Policies.International journal of mental health and addiction · 2025Article
- Perinatal Cannabis Use, Depression, and the Mother-Child Dyad: Protocol for a Prospective Multimethod Study.JMIR research protocols · 2025Article
- Mothers and fathers who use medical cannabis: A comparison of sociodemographic characteristics, cannabis use, and health.Drug and alcohol dependence reports · 2025Article
- Integrating Alcohol and Cannabis Risk Reduction Into Sexual Assault Resistance Programming: Findings From a Pilot of EAAA.Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs · 2025Article
- A Mobile App (Joint Effort) to Support Cannabis Use Self-Management and Reinforce the Use of Protective Behavioral Strategies: Development Process and Usability Testing.JMIR formative research · 2025Article
- Opioid Protective Behavioral Strategies Scale (OPBSS): Development and psychometric evaluation.Experimental and clinical psychopharmacology · 2025Article
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- Beyond Frequency and Quantity of Cannabis Consumption Among College Students: Context of Using Cannabis Relates to Cannabis-Related Outcomes.Cannabis (Albuquerque, N.M.) · 2025Article
- Protective Behavioral Strategies for Psychedelic Use: A Mini Review of the Evidence.Psychedelic medicine (New Rochelle, N.Y.) · 2024Article
- The relations of difficulties in emotion regulation and distress intolerance with cannabis problems: The role of protective behavioral strategies underutilization.Journal of substance use and addiction treatment · 2024Article
- Development of the Protective Strategies for Psychedelics Scale: A novel inventory to assess safety strategies in the context of psychedelics.Journal of psychopharmacology (Oxford, England) · 2024Article
- Direct and Indirect Effects of Cannabis Risk Perceptions on Cannabis Use Frequency.Addiction research & theory · 2024Article
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Abstract
objectiveMarijuana use can result in a variety of negative consequences, yet it remains popular among young adults and the general public at large. Combined with the growing empirical support for the benefits of medicinal marijuana as well as the steady increase in popular opinion regarding its legalization, it is of growing importance to identify strategies that may mitigate the harms related to marijuana use, reduce consumption levels, and limit resulting negative consequences among young adults who use marijuana. The purpose of this study was to develop and conduct initial psychometric analyses on a new scale, which we named the Protective Behavioral Strategies for Marijuana (PBSM) scale.
methodA sample of undergraduate college students who reported past-6-month marijuana use (n = 210) responded to the initial pool of PBSM items and completed measures of marijuana use, consequences from marijuana use, alcohol use, and protective behavioral strategies for alcohol.
resultsResults from an iterative principal component analyses process yielded a single-factor structure with 39 items. The PBSM mean composite score negatively associated with marijuana use and consequences, with the strongest correlations evident for pastmonth users. The PBSM also significantly positively correlated with alcohol protective strategies.
conclusionsProtective behavioral strategies for marijuana appear to be a measurable construct that are related to marijuana frequency and consequences, and thus may be a useful component of intervention and prevention programs with young adults. More work testing the PBSM items with larger and more diverse samples of young adults is encouraged.
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