The relationship between resilience, motivational structure, and substance use

AbstractStudies suggest that motivational structure and resilience play important roles in substance use. We studied the relationship among motivational structure, resilience, and substance use. Participants were university students (N = 120; 75% female, mean age = 21.5), who completed a demographic information sheet, Personal Concerns Inventory (PCI; to measure motivational structure), and Connor and Davidson's Resiliency Scale. The results showed that resilience and adaptive motivational structure were inverse predictors of substance abuse. The results of a mediational analysis showed that motivational structure was a full mediator of the relationship between resilience and substance use