Measurement invariance of the Marijuana Motives Measure among men and women using Stop Cannabis App.

App Cannabis Conformity Coping Motives Problematic cannabis use Sex-related differences

Journal

Addictive behaviors
ISSN: 1873-6327
Titre abrégé: Addict Behav
Pays: England
ID NLM: 7603486

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
Jan 2024
Historique:
received: 04 04 2023
revised: 08 09 2023
accepted: 18 09 2023
pubmed: 25 9 2023
medline: 25 9 2023
entrez: 25 9 2023
Statut: ppublish

Résumé

Motives to use cannabis play a central role in the development and maintenance of problematic cannabis use and previous studies stressed sex-related differences on motives to use cannabis. However, motives cannot be validly compared in men and women without first establishing the measurement invariance across sex. Therefore, the aim of the study is to (1) examine for the first time the measurement and structural invariance of the Marijuana Motives Measure (MMM) across sex, and (2) to investigate the motives for cannabis use that best explain problematic use. 2951 (41.7% women) users of the "Stop cannabis" smartphone app of which 99.8% reported having used cannabis in the last three months completed an online MMM and ASSIST to assess the severity of their problematic cannabis use. Multigroup confirmatory factor analyses supported measurement invariance across sex, whereas structural invariance was not confirmed. Indeed, group comparisons indicated that women reported greater coping motives then men whereas men showed greater social motives than women. A multiple linear regression analysis showed that only coping and conformity motives were significantly associated with greater problematic cannabis use, whereas neither sex nor the sex by motives interactions were significantly related to problematic cannabis use. The MMM appears to function comparably across men and women. Therefore, sex-related comparisons on the questionnaire can be considered valid. Coping and conformity motives may play a central role part in the development of marijuana use problems which may hold implications for intervention development and public policy.

Sections du résumé

BACKGROUND BACKGROUND
Motives to use cannabis play a central role in the development and maintenance of problematic cannabis use and previous studies stressed sex-related differences on motives to use cannabis. However, motives cannot be validly compared in men and women without first establishing the measurement invariance across sex. Therefore, the aim of the study is to (1) examine for the first time the measurement and structural invariance of the Marijuana Motives Measure (MMM) across sex, and (2) to investigate the motives for cannabis use that best explain problematic use.
METHODS METHODS
2951 (41.7% women) users of the "Stop cannabis" smartphone app of which 99.8% reported having used cannabis in the last three months completed an online MMM and ASSIST to assess the severity of their problematic cannabis use.
RESULTS RESULTS
Multigroup confirmatory factor analyses supported measurement invariance across sex, whereas structural invariance was not confirmed. Indeed, group comparisons indicated that women reported greater coping motives then men whereas men showed greater social motives than women. A multiple linear regression analysis showed that only coping and conformity motives were significantly associated with greater problematic cannabis use, whereas neither sex nor the sex by motives interactions were significantly related to problematic cannabis use.
CONCLUSIONS CONCLUSIONS
The MMM appears to function comparably across men and women. Therefore, sex-related comparisons on the questionnaire can be considered valid. Coping and conformity motives may play a central role part in the development of marijuana use problems which may hold implications for intervention development and public policy.

Identifiants

DOI: 10.1016/j.addbeh.2023.107866 PMID: 37748226
pubmed: 37748226
pii: S0306-4603(23)00261-7
doi: 10.1016/j.addbeh.2023.107866
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doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

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IM

Pagination

107866

Informations de copyright

Copyright © 2023 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.. All rights reserved.

Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts

Declaration of Competing Interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

Auteurs

Lucien Rochat (L)

Specialized Facility in Behavioral Addiction ReConnecte, Department of Mental Health and Psychiatry, University Hospitals of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland; Faculty of Psychology, UniDistance, Brig, Switzerland. Electronic address: Lucien.Rochat@hcuge.ch.

Stéphane Rothen (S)

Addiction Division, Department of Mental Health and Psychiatry, University Hospitals of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland; Research Center for Statistics, Geneva School of Management and Economics, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland. Electronic address: Stephane.Rothen@hcuge.ch.

Yves Edel (Y)

ELSA , GHU Pitié-Salpétrière, Sorbonne-Université Paris, Paris, France. Electronic address: yves.edel@aphp.fr.

Louise Penzenstadler (L)

Addiction Division, Department of Mental Health and Psychiatry, University Hospitals of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland. Electronic address: louise.e.penzenstadler@hcuge.ch.

Tania Lecomte (T)

Research Center of the Institut Universitaire en Santé Mentale de Montréal, Montreal and Université de Montréal, Montreal, Canada. Electronic address: tania.lecomte@umontreal.ca.

Stephane Potvin (S)

Research Center of the Institut Universitaire en Santé Mentale de Montréal, Montreal and Université de Montréal, Montreal, Canada. Electronic address: stephane.potvin@umontreal.ca.

Elise Dan Glauser (E)

Institute of Psychology, Lausanne University, Lausanne, Switzerland. Electronic address: elise.danglauser@unil.ch.

Jean-François Etter (JF)

Institute of Global Health, Geneva University, Geneva, Switzerland. Electronic address: Jean-Francois.Etter@unige.ch.

Yasser Khazaal (Y)

Research Center of the Institut Universitaire en Santé Mentale de Montréal, Montreal and Université de Montréal, Montreal, Canada; Addiction Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, Lausanne University Hospital and Lausanne University, Lausanne, Switzerland; Faculty of Biology and Medicine, Lausanne University, Lausanne, Switzerland. Electronic address: yasser.khazaal@unil.ch.

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