ArticlePsychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors2020
Why don't they stop? Understanding unplanned marijuana use among adolescents and young adults.
Article in Psychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers.
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- Planned versus Unplanned Daily Substance Use among Sexual Minority Youth: The Moderating Role of Social Norms.Clinical psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science · 2025Article
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- Planned versus unplanned drinking and cannabis use: Do facets of trait impulsivity influence daily risk?Psychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors · 2023Article
- Emotion differentiation in early recovery from alcohol use disorder: Associations with in-the-moment affect and 3-month drinking outcomes.Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research · 2022Article
- Unplanned versus planned simultaneous alcohol and cannabis use in the daily lives of a predominantly white college student sample: What are the motives, contexts, and outcomes?Psychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors · 2022Article
- Mobile phone sensor-based detection of subjective cannabis intoxication in young adults: A feasibility study in real-world settings.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2021Article
- Health Outcomes among Adults Initiating Medical Cannabis for Chronic Pain: A 3-month Prospective Study Incorporating Ecological Momentary Assessment (EMA).Cannabis (Albuquerque, N.M.) · 2021Article
- Forgoing plans for alcohol and cannabis use in daily life: Examining reasons for nonuse when use was planned in a predominantly white college student sample.Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research · 2021Article
- Unplanned versus planned simultaneous alcohol and marijuana use in relation to substance use and consequences: Results from a longitudinal daily study.Psychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors · 2021Article
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Abstract
Difficulty regulating substance use is a core feature of addiction that can manifest as unplanned use. This study sought to identify internal and situational influences on unplanned marijuana use among youth ages 15 to 24 years (N = 85; 48% female; 27% age <18 years). Additionally, we disentangled person-level associations from within-person day-to-day influences. Ecological momentary assessment methods captured affective (positive: energized, excited, sociable, happy, relaxed; negative: bored, tense, sad, stressed) and situational factors in real-world settings during a 1-week monitoring period. Participants reported no plan to use on 51% of days (269/527), and youth ultimately used marijuana on 35% of these unplanned days. At the day level, on days when youth spent more time in the presence of marijuana-related cues than they typically do, they used more grams on planned days and less on unplanned days. Regardless of use plans, youth were more likely to use on days when they spent more time with using friends and if they reported greater availability of marijuana in general across the monitoring period. At the person level, youth who generally reported higher positive affect, relative to other participants, used more on planned days and less on unplanned days. Regardless of use plans, youth who generally reported greater craving and time in the presence of marijuana-related cues used more grams, whereas youth who generally reported greater negative affect used less. Together, findings revealed several factors, with clear clinical relevance, which may explain why some youth struggle to control their marijuana use. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved).
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