Links between Psychotropic Substance Use and Sensation Seeking in a Prevalence Study: The Role of Some Features of Parenting Style in a Large Sample of Adolescents

Table 3

Sensation Seeking Scale (SSS) global and subscale mean scores (M) and standard deviation (SD) for the entire sample, for substance users and nonusers adolescents, and for gender.

	All sample						Substance users						Nonsubstance users
	Male		Female		All		Male		Female		All		Male		Female		All
	M	SD	M	SD	M	SD	M	SD	M	SD	M	SD	M	SD	M	SD	M	SD
SSS	20.3	5.0	18.5	5.4	19.3	5.3	22.8	4.7	22.4	5.0	22.6	4.8	19.0	4.7	17.4	4.9	18.1	4.9
TAS^a	6.1	2.1	5.8	2.2	5.9	2.2	6.3	2.0	6.3	2.1	6.3	2.1	5.9	2.2	5.6	2.3	5.7	2.2
ES^a	5.4	1.7	5.5	1.7	5.5	1.7	6.1	1.7	6.7	1.6	6.4	1.7	5.0	1.6	5.2	1.5	5.2	1.6
Dis^a	4.5	2.2	3.3	2.3	3.8	2.3	5.6	2.0	4.9	2.3	5.3	2.1	3.9	2.0	2.9	2.0	3.3	2.1
BS^a	4.4	1.7	3.8	1.6	4.1	1.7	4.8	1.7	4.5	1.7	4.7	1.7	4.2	1.6	3.7	1.6	3.9	1.6

Subscale scores: TAS: thrill and adventure seeking; Dis: disinhibition; ES: experience seeking; BS: boredom susceptibility.
All tests are significant with < 0.001.