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Personal, Social and Cultural Predictors of Intention to Misuse Prescription Stimulants among Medical Students: A Test of the Theory of Triadic Influence

Affiliations.

• 1 Department of Sociology, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium.
• 2 Department of Communication Sciences, IMEC-MICT-Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.
• 3 Department of Epidemiology and Social Medicine, Social Epidemiology and Health Policy, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium.
• PMID: 35139749
• DOI: 10.1080/10826084.2022.2034870

Objective: The misuse of prescription stimulants among students has been identified as a public health problem. To date, most research has focused on individual-level determinants of stimulant misuse, making research on the socio-cultural context of students' misuse a priority. This study aims to test the applicability of the Theory of Triadic Influence, capturing three influence streams (personal, social and cultural) and three causational levels (ultimate, distal and proximal).

Method: A questionnaire on stimulant misuse was distributed among all bachelor's and master's students from the five Flemish medical faculties. In total, 3159 students participated (48.99% response rate). Data were analyzed using structural equation modeling.

Results: Multiple personal (i.e., fear of failure, procrastination, self-perceived ADHD, sensation-seeking, academic stress, controllability), social (i.e., living situation, peer endorsement, social norm) and cultural (i.e., competitive study-environment, financial worries, positive and negative expectancies, attitude) factors were identified as risk factors of misuse intention. The strongest ultimate to distal pathway was found between self-perceived ADHD and positive expectancies, meaning that students who believed they have ADHD, although not diagnosed, were more likely to have positive expectancies about stimulants. Moreover, the strongest distal to proximal pathways were found between expectancies and attitudes toward stimulant misuse (i.e., more positive and fewer negative expectancies were associated with more favorable attitudes). Finally, attitudes were most strongly related to misuse intention.

Conclusions: The current study shows that the TTI is an important framework to understand the risk factors of stimulant misuse among medical students. This study offers a strong basis for prevention initiatives.

Keywords: Theory of Triadic Influence; determinants; enhancement; misuse; prescription stimulants; socio-cultural context; students.

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• Central Nervous System Stimulants* / adverse effects
• Prescription Drug Misuse*
• Prescriptions
• Students, Medical*
• Substance-Related Disorders* / drug therapy
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• Central Nervous System Stimulants

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Helmer, Gabriele Rosalie. "Jaina in Antwerpen eine religionsgeschichtliche Studie." München AVM, 2008. http://d-nb.info/993315666/04.

Winter, Anne. "Migrants and urban change : newcomers to Antwerp, 1760-1860 /." London : Pickering & Chatto, 2009. http://aleph.unisg.ch/hsgscan/hm00219689.pdf.

Bevers, Holm. "Das Rathaus von Antwerpen 1561-1565 : Architektur und Figurenprogramm /." Hildesheim : Georg Olms, 1985. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb38986973t.

Van, Antwerpen Ruan. "Selfdeterminering en prestasieverskille by 'n groep universiteitsrugbyspelers / Ruan van Antwerpen." Thesis, North-West University, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/4948.

Söding, Ulrich. "Das Grabbild des Peter Paul Rubens in der Jakobskirche zu Antwerpen /." Hildesheim : Georg Olms, 1986. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb38987080v.

Van, Antwerpen Werner. "Multi-quadrant performance simulation for subsonic axial flow compressors / Werner van Antwerpen." Thesis, North-West University, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/1271.

Heinen, Ulrich. "Rubens zwischen Predigt und Kunst : der Hochaltar für die Walburgenkirche in Antwerpen /." Weimar : Verl. und Datenbank für Geisteswissenschaften, 1996. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb37203286h.

Van, Antwerpen Henry. "A proposed corporate entrepreneurial framework in the retail division of an agri-business / H. van Antwerpen." Thesis, North-West University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/9219.

Sors, Anne-Katrin [Verfasser]. "Religiöse Druckgraphik in Antwerpen um 1600 – Jan Davids Andachtsbücher und Theodoor Galles Illustrationen / Anne-Katrin Sors." Berlin : Freie Universität Berlin, 2015. http://d-nb.info/1080171126/34.

Popova, Anna. "Addressing retail vacancy in city centers of Gelderland: what can be learned from the Province of Antwerpen?" Thesis, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, Institutionen för fysisk planering, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:bth-10512.

Van, Antwerpen Werner. "Modelling the effective thermal conductivity in the near-wall region of a packed pebble bed / Werner van Antwerpen." Thesis, North-West University, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/9628.

Van, Antwerpen Hermanus Johannes. "Modelling a pebble bed high temperature gas-cooled reactor using a system-CFD approach / Hermanus Johannes (Herman) van Antwerpen." Thesis, North-West University, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/1301.

Van, Honacker Karin. "Lokaal verzet en oproer in de 17de en 18de eeuw : collectieve acties tegen het centraal gezag in Brussel, Antwerpen en Leuven /." Heule : UGA, 1994. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb36682196h.

Franssen, Peter J. A. "Tussen tekst en publiek : Jan van Doesborch, drukker-uitgever en literator te Antwerpen en Utrecht in de eerste helft van de zestiende eeuw /." Amsterdam : Rodopi, 1990. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb355682130.

Diefenbacher, Jörg Mirou Anton. "Anton Mirou : 1578 - vor 1627; ein Antwerpener Maler in Frankenthal /." Landau : PVA, 2007. http://swbplus.bsz-bw.de/bsz274312689rez.htm.

Alt, Wolfgang. "Sprache und Macht das Spanische in den Niederlanden unter Philipp II. bis zur Eroberung Antwerpens ; (1555 - 1585) /." [S.l.] : [s.n.], 2005. http://deposit.ddb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?idn=975949640.

Jaspers, Jürgen. "Tegenwerken, belachelijk doen: talige sabotage van Marokkaanse jongens op een Antwerpse middelbare school." Doctoral thesis, Universiteit Antwerpen, Antwerpen, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/244181.

Coutts-Dohrenbusch, Maria Adele. "Untersuchungen zu Ikonographie und Gestaltung der Antwerpener Gemäldeepithaphien im 16. und 17. Jh. /." Witterschlick [bei] Bonn : M. Wehle, 1989. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb35741266t.

Oakley, Edward. "Early medieval towns : centrality and identity, Norwich and Antwerp AD 600-1200." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.546283.

Schiller, Maria. "A post-multicultural era : implementing diversity policy in Amsterdam, Antwerp and Leeds." Thesis, University of Kent, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.633522.

Kay, Nancy J. "The sacred public sculptures in Antwerp: From their medieval origins to the French Revolution." View abstract/electronic edition; access limited to Brown University users, 2008. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3318337.

Van, Antwerp Herbert James. "A proposed project risk management framework in the information technology environment / Herbert James van Antwerp." Thesis, North-West University, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/4455.

Wijnroks, Eric Henk. "Handel tussen Rusland en de Nederlanden, 1560-1640 : een netwerkanalyse van de Antwerpse en Amsterdamse kooplieden, handelend op Rusland /." Hilversum : Verloren, 2003. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb39022006k.

Wood, Sienna M. "Chansons, madrigales and motetz a 3 parties by Noe Faignient| A Composer's Debut in 16th-Century Antwerp." Thesis, University of Colorado at Boulder, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3743677.

Gattringer, Christa. "17th-Century Antwerp artists' studio practice : Rubens and his circle : an interdisciplinary approach in technical art history." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2014. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/5135/.

Lambert, Olivier. "Long-snouted dolphins and beaked whales from the Neogene of the Antwerp area: systematics, phylogeny, palaeoecology and palaeobiogeography =." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/211020.

VanHofstraeten, Bram. "Juridisch humanisme en costumiere acculturatie inhouds- en vormbepalende factoren van de Antwerpse consuetudines compilatae (1608) en het Gelderse land- en stadsrecht (1620) /." Maastricht : Maastricht : Universitaire Pers Maastricht ; University Library, Universiteit Maastricht [host], 2008. http://arno.unimaas.nl/show.cgi?fid=11594.

Brabant, Stéphane. "L'imprimeur Abraham Verhoeven (1575-1652) et les débuts de la presse à Anvers." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/211145.

Orrock, Amy Louise. "Play and learning in Pieter Bruegel's 'Children's games'." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/5505.

Horsley, Jeffrey. "Embedding the personal : the construction of a 'fashion autobiography' as a museum exhibition, informed by innovative practice at ModeMuseum, Antwerp." Thesis, University of the Arts London, 2012. http://ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/5688/.

Buchanan, Catherine. "The massacre of St. Bartholomew's (24-27 August 1572) and the sack of Antwerp (4-7 November 1576) : print and political responses in Elizabethan England." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2011. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/244/.

Renglet, Antoine. "Des polices en quête de modernité ? : systèmes policiers et ordre public dans les villes de l'espace belge de la fin de l'Ancien Régime à la fin de l'Empire napoléonien (1780-1814)." Thesis, Lille 3, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016LIL30001.

Préaux, Céline. "Le déclin d'une élite: l'évolution du discours communautaire public des francophones d'Anvers et des anglophones de Montréal." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/209907.

Ukattah, Chukwuechefu Okwudiri. "General Average and the York-Antwerp Rules: The historical quest for international conformity, the divisive effect of more recent amendments to the Rules and recommendations with regard to the way forward to regain more widespread acceptance of the Rules in today's global maritime industry." Thesis, Faculty of Law, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/32595.

Verdol, Maïté. "Planification stratégique et gouvernance dans les villes portuaires : une analyse néo-institutionnelle du Havre, d’Anvers et de Rotterdam." Thesis, Paris 4, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017PA040029.

Dewaël, Stéphanie. "Splendeur, décadence et rémission : la représentation du Fils Prodigue dans la peinture et les arts graphiques à Anvers (1520-1650)." Thesis, Paris 4, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010PA040109.

Letsinger, Robert B. "Tradition, Erudition and the Book: Aspects of the Bollandist-Carmelite Controversy, with a Critical Edition of the Pamphlet Novus Ismael (1682 & 1683), Including Translation and Commentary." Thesis, Connect to resource online, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1805/1896.

Samouelian, Esther. "La peinture religieuse dans les "Cabinets d'amateurs" anversois de la première moitié du XVIIème siècle : combinaison d'images et construction de discours." Thesis, Paris 1, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017PA01H035.

Pouillard, Violette. "En captivité. Politiques humaines et vies animales dans les jardins zoologiques du XIXe siècle à nos jours : ménagerie du Jardin des Plantes, zoos de Londres et Anvers." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/209127.

Carreira, Maria dos Passos Roque Franco. "Performance numa exposição de moda : a exposição Rik Wouters & HetHuiselijk Utopia' no ModeMuseum Pronvicie Antwerpen." Master's thesis, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10451/37632.

Antwerpen, Markus Heinrich [Verfasser]. "DNA-Microarrays zur Detektion von relevanten Antibiotikaresistenzen in Bacillus anthracis und Yersinia pestis / von Markus Heinrich Antwerpen." 2007. http://d-nb.info/98471510X/34.

Van, Antwerpen Herman. "Modelling a pebble bed high temperature gas-cooled reactor using a system-CFD approach / Hermanus Johannes van Antwerpen." Thesis, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/1301.

Antwerpen, Benjamin [Verfasser]. "Analyse von sechs Polymorphismen und zwei Mikrosatelliten im Calpain-10-Gen bei extrem adipösen Kindern und Jugendlichen, ihren adipösen Geschwistern und ihren Eltern / vorgelegt von Benjamin Antwerpen." 2006. http://d-nb.info/981793185/34.

Francu, Victoria. "Multilingual access to information using an intermediate language: Proefschrift voorgelegd tot het behalen van de graad van doctor in de Taal- en Letterkunde aan de Universiteit Antwerpen." Thesis, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/106319.

Mayhew, Robert A. "Law, Commerce, and the Rise of New Imagery in Antwerp, 1500-1600." Diss., 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10161/4975.

Marinus Van Reymerswaele's painting of 1542, The Lawyer's Office , was a completely new type of image in the history of art. It shows a lawyer and his assistant behind a desk strewn with briefs, wax seals and money. A complex set of historical circumstances at the interface of art, economics, and legal history in sixteenth century Antwerp explain this painting's appearance and significance. In the beginning of the sixteenth century, Antwerp became a locus of unprecedented artistic production caused by the dramatic growth of its mercantile population, its highly organized commercial infrastructure, and its competitive business atmosphere. These developments stimulated a new sophistication in the art market and an energetic approach to acquiring and collecting, supported by publicly-funded venues to mass-market paintings. Over the course of the sixteenth century, artists invented new subjects to meet public demand. Many of these were radically new. One of these artists, Marinus Van Reymerswaele (c. 1490-1546) made distinctive paintings of lawyers, bankers, and moneychangers which relate to fundamental changes in the legal and commercial infrastructure in the sixteenth century. In just one generation, the Habsburg authority centralized the political and legal landscape in the Netherlands. As the prized economic and cultural center of Habsburg territories, Antwerp was transformed.

This dissertation links the development of consumption practices and the rise of new pictorial subjects introduced in Antwerp with the changing business and legal climate of the city during the sixteenth century. Through an investigation of unpublished home inventories recorded between 1528 and 1588, it clarifies the acquisition preferences of the Antwerp public at large, considering both changing preferences for panel and linen paintings as well as for novel and traditional images alike. This reassessment of painting consumption reveals a starkly more conservative approach to buying images than previously assumed, underscoring the rarity of everyday life subjects in Antwerp domestic spaces. As a painter operating within this market, Marinus van Reymerswaele invented a new brand of painting -- the new old master painting -- that not only addressed broad social concerns sparked by Habsburg political, mercantile, and legal reforms, but also built on long-established Netherlandish visual traditions. As the sixteenth century drew to a close, his paintings became more desired by collectors but lost their topicality as memories of Antwerp's political anxieties faded into the past.

Czarkowska, Ewa. "Antverpiae arte suprema. Projektanci, wykonawcy, kupcy i kolekcjonerzy tapiserii w XVI i XVII-wiecznej Antwerpii." Doctoral thesis, 2020. https://depotuw.ceon.pl/handle/item/3715.

Alt, Wolfgang [Verfasser]. "Sprache und Macht : das Spanische in den Niederlanden unter Philipp II. bis zur Eroberung Antwerpens ; (1555 - 1585) / von Wolfgang Alt." 2005. http://d-nb.info/975949640/34.

Evans, Allison Celia. "Het Tapissierspand: Interpreting the Success of the Antwerp Tapestry Market in the 1500s." Diss., 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10161/6132.

During the 1550s, a warehouse was constructed in Antwerp with funds from both the city government and a private investor. This building, the Tapissierspand, became the global center for selling and distributing tapestries of extraordinary beauty, exquisite craftsmanship, and exorbitant cost. The construction of the building indicates that the very nature of how tapestries were made and purchased was changing in the 1550s. Although Antwerp's fairs had long been convenient locations for agents to find luxury items that might please their wealthy clients, like with many luxury trades, tapestry sales were shifting from strictly commissioned sales to include on spec sales. The Tapissierspand was the ideal place for a dealer to purchase multiple already-made tapestries and load them onto the waiting ships in Antwerp's busy harbor for export and resale abroad. The city's export registers document that thousands of yards of tapestry were shipped this way.

The regulatory environment in Antwerp was much less strict than in other cities and this permitted freer interactions within guilds and across industries. The city was for this reason a desirable location for craftsmen to work and sell. But because the strict royal ordinances delivered throughout the 1530s and 1540s were frequently uninforced, workers in the industry were forced to find other ways to manage the large risk inherent in the tapestry trade. The development of the Tapissierspand in Antwerp was an effort on the part of merchants and the city to abate risk. The city could continue to entice merchants if it could provide the right opportunities and environment. However, by the sixteenth century, the constant hyper-vigilance the city had experienced throughout the fifteenth century during frequent times of war and financial difficulty shaped the way the city and its occupants viewed business. In a large sense, everything came down to risk, and how to manage it and minimize it.

At a time of upheaval and mismanagement, survival and financial success through the reduction of risk became of primary importance. Tapestry weaving carried inherent--and large--risks. Raw materials were expensive, and workshops often did not have the capital needed for on spec weaving. The purchase of on spec tapestries without any guarantees of quality or origin was risky for buyers. Thus the Tapissierspand's story is one of people seeking to maximize economic advantage and minimize risk. The Tapissierspand allowed buyers and sellers to minimize risk by facilitating exchange of knowledge, assessment of quality, negotiation of prices and commissions, and extension of credit.

This dissertation will examine the historical precedents in Antwerp that allowed the Tapissierspand to develop, and the ways in which the Pand functioned to expand trade while reducing risk for both buyers and sellers by reducing the risks inherent in the industry.

Ti-Chih, Li, and 李媞芝. "Suggestions for Modifying Taiwan’s General Average Laws based on York-Antwerp Rules 2004." Thesis, 2011. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/45480129683109525009.

Chang, Shu-Ping, and 張淑萍. "A Study on the Changes of York-Antwerp Rules and Development of General Average." Thesis, 2007. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/27765496872170588849.