Atitudes e coping proactivo no consumo de substâncias na adolescência

This study aims to explore the role of proactive attitudes, as well as the predisposition attitudes, displeasure index and perceived satisfaction in substance use. To do that, the authors relied on a sample of 418 secondary school students using the Proactive Attitude Scale (Schwarzer, 1999), which evaluates the perception of resources, with implications for motivation and action, the Proactive Coping Scale (Greenglass, Schwarzer, & Taubert, 1999), and the Attitudes Toward Tobacco, Alcohol and Drugs Scales (García del Castillo & López, 2003), which measure the attitude of willingness, displeasure index and perceived satisfaction with substance use. The results allow us to understand some gender differences in attitudes and courses taken, except in the proactive attitude and coping, and a negative relationship between age and attitudes towards drugs. There were also differences in attitude predisposition, displeasure index and perceived satisfaction with the substances as tobacco, alcohol and drugs (marijuana, cocaine, crack and other drugs). Proactive attitudes and coping did not revealed significant role in experience, onset age or intensity of consumption. Although the relationship between attitude and proactive coping with attitudes toward substance use, this relationship did not exist with consumption. The implications of the results are critically discussed.