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- The study explores how global positive expectancies influence substance use among adolescents, suggesting that these expectancies shape attitudes, norms, self-efficacy, and intentions.
- Results indicate that adolescents with higher global positive expectancies tend to use substances less often, likely due to more protective attitudes and a sense of control over their choices.
- The research also supports the idea that global positive expectancies can be considered a second-order factor, which includes components of optimism and two aspects of hope: agency and pathways.
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Grounded in theories of global positive expectancies and social influences of behavior, this investigation posited a model in which global positive expectancies are related to substance use as mediated by attitudes, subjective norms, self-efficacy, and intentions. Using a cohort sample (n = 525), structural equation modeling was employed to test the hypothesized predictions of future substance use. The findings suggest that, relative to adolescents with lower global positive expectancies, adolescents with higher global positive expectancies use substances less frequently over time because of their protective attitudinal and control-oriented perceptions towards that behavior. Additionally, results from the current investigation also extend prior findings on the factor structure of global positive expectancies, suggesting these expectancies can be viewed as a second-order factor representing optimism and two components of hope-agency and pathways.
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