Borderline personality disorder features and drinking, cannabis, and prescription opioid motives: Differential associations across substance and sex

Drinking motives have shown meaningful associations with borderline personality disorder (BPD) features. However, it is unknown whether other common substances of abuse (namely cannabis and prescription opioids) have the same associations with BPD features. In the present study, we tested associatio...

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Published in:Addictive behaviors 2018-12, Vol.87, p.46-54
Main Authors: Vest, Noel A., Murphy, Kyle T., Tragesser, Sarah L.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adaptation, Psychological
Adolescent
Adult
Alcohol Drinking - psychology
Alcohol motives
Alcohol use
Alcoholic beverages
Alcohols
Analgesics, Opioid
Borderline personality disorder
Borderline Personality Disorder - psychology
Cannabis
Cannabis motives
College sample
Demographics
Demography
Drinking behavior
Drug abuse
Drug addiction
Female
Females
Humans
Male
Males
Marijuana
Marijuana Use - psychology
Motivation
Narcotics
Opioids
Pain
Personality
Personality disorders
Prescription Drug Misuse - psychology
Prescription drugs
Prescription opioid use motives
Sex Factors
Social Conformity
Students
Substance use
Universities
Young Adult
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Summary:Drinking motives have shown meaningful associations with borderline personality disorder (BPD) features. However, it is unknown whether other common substances of abuse (namely cannabis and prescription opioids) have the same associations with BPD features. In the present study, we tested associations between BPD features and motives across three substances: alcohol, cannabis, and prescription opioids. The purpose of the study was to determine whether BPD showed similar patterns of associations across drugs, or whether some substances serve particular functions for individuals with BPD features, and whether this also varies by sex in a college student sample. Five-hundred ninety-four college students completed online questionnaires measuring demographics, borderline personality disorder features, substance use, and substance specific motives for alcohol, cannabis, and prescription opioid use. BPD was most strongly associated with coping motives across all substances. For both alcohol and cannabis, this was true for both males and females, along with conformity motives. For prescription opioids, coping, social, enhancement, and pain motives were only significantly related to BPD features for females. When compared statistically, it was found that the associations with coping drinking motives and opioid pain motives were higher among females. This pattern of results suggests that negatively reinforcing motives (coping and conformity) play a similar functional role in borderline personality and substance use disorder pathology for alcohol and cannabis, but for prescription opioids the negative reinforcement motives (coping and pain) were only evident in females. •Coping motives showed the strongest association with BPD features across substances•Conformity motives were important for alcohol and cannabis use for both sexes•Prescription opioid motives for coping, social, enhancement, and pain appear to be specific to females
ISSN:0306-4603
1873-6327
DOI:10.1016/j.addbeh.2018.06.015