Relationship between substance use, attachment styles in romantic relationships and self-esteem

Cilj provedenog istraživanja bio je prikupiti podatke o konzumaciji različitih sredstava ovisnosti na uzorku studenata te ispitati odnos konzumacije sredstava ovisnosti, stilova privrženosti u romantičnim odnosima i samopoštovanja kod osoba mlađe odrasle dobi. Istraživanje je provedeno online putem na prigodnom uzorku od 413 studenata (79,7% ženskih) s područja Republike Hrvatske. U istraživanju su korišteni Anketni upitnik o uporabi sredstava ovisnosti kod studenata, Skala samosviđanja i samokompetentnosti (Tafarodi i Swann, 2001) te Upitnik privrženosti prema ljubavnim partnerima (Kamenov i Jelić, 2003). Provedbom MANOVA-e utvrđeno je da su muškarci statistički značajno češće konzumirali sva ispitivana sredstva ovisnosti, bili skloniji opijanju od žena te postizali statistički značajno više rezultate na skali samosviđanja. Životna prevalencija konzumacije ilegalnih droga je statistički značajno pozitivno korelirala s učestalosti opijanja i kod muškaraca i kod žena, a negativno s dimenzijom samosviđanja kod muškaraca. Provedbom binarne logističke regresijske analize utvrđeno je da je set prediktora, koji uključuje dob prve konzumacije alkohola, učestalost opijanja, izbjegavanje, anksioznost, samosviđanje i samokompetenciju, statistički značajno predviđao varijancu životne prevalencije konzumacije ilegalnih droga i kod žena i kod muškaraca. Pritom se najboljim prediktorom životne prevalencije konzumacije ilegalnih droga i kod žena i kod muškaraca pokazala učestalost opijanja, a kod muškaraca značajan prediktor bilo je i samosviđanje.The aim of the conducted research was to collect data of substance use on a sample of students and to examine the relationship between substance use, attachment styles in romantic relationships and self-esteem in younger adults. The research was conducted online on a random sample of 413 students (79,7% females) from Croatia. The instruments used were the Survey Questionnaire of substance use among Students, the Self-liking/self-competence Scale (Tafarodi and Swann, 2001) and Attachment in close relationships Inventory (Kamenov and Jelić, 2003). Through the implementation of MANOVA, it was determined men consumed all investigated addictive substances significantly more often, were more prone to binge drinking than women and achieved significantly higher results on the self-liking scale. The lifetime prevalence of illegal drug consumption was significantly positively correlated with the frequency of binge drinking in both men and women, and significantly negatively correlated with the dimension of self-liking in men. Binary logistic regression analysis determined that a set of predictors, which includes the age of first alcohol consumption, frequency of binge drinking, avoidance, anxiety, self-liking and selfcompetence significantly predicted the variance of lifetime prevalence of illegal drug consumption in participants of both sexes. The best predictor of lifetime prevalence of illegal drug use in both women and men was the frequency of binge drinking. Among men, self-liking was also a significant predictor