Attributions of Responsibility for Addiction: The Effects of Gender and Type of Substance |
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| Authors: | Christina Hatgis Peter D. Friedmann Morton Wiener |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Division of General Internal Medicine Research, Rhode Island Hospital, Providence, Rhode Island, USA;2. Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University and Rhode Island Hospital, Providence, Rhode Island, USA;3. Program to Integrate Psychosocial and Health Services, Research Service, Providence Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Providence, Rhode Island, USA;4. Department of Psychology, Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA |
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| Abstract: | In 1997, 248 urban university students in central Massachusetts rated responsibility for addiction using the Attributions of Responsibility for Addiction Scale (ARAS), developed for this study with university-based financial support. The vignette-based factorial design varied sex of drug user and type of addictive substance. Factor analysis yielded two subscales: internal and external responsibility attributions; the dependent variable was the internal-to-external attribution ratio. Analysis of variance indicated main effects for substance type and drug abuse experience and showed interaction effects for participant's sex by user's sex and user's sex by substance type. Authors discuss implications, study limitations, and future research. |
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| Keywords: | responsibility attributions addiction substance use and misuse drug use alcohol college students recovery |
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