Drugs, Daydreaming, and Personality

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Originally published in 1980, this book presents a detailed account of a series of investigations that examined the patterns of resort to drugs and alcohol use in college youth, and how such substance uses are linked to personality characteristics and daydreaming patterns.

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Preface. 1. A Perspective on Youthful Drug Use 2. The Private Personality 3. Research Approaches to the Psychology of Daydreaming 4. Participants, Sampling, Measures, and Descriptive Statistics 5. Organization of Private Personality Among Male and Female Drug and Alcohol Users 6. Private Personality Differences Among Substance Use Groups 7. Interrelations of Private Personality and Reasons for Substance Use 8. Questionnaire, Experimental, and Qualitative Studies of Normal Daydreaming Patterns 9. Summary and Conclusions. Appendix: Generalizability Research on Other Youthful Samples. References. Author Index. Subject Index.