Current Issue: Volume 11, Issue 2

EDITORIAL: On the social perception of drug use by actors and observers
The use of steroids and their relationship to psychological variables bodybuilding practitioners

Enrique Cantón Chirivella y Irene Checa Esquiva.
Universidad de Valencia, España

This paper presents a consumer profile of steroids in gyms, taking into account the reasons of practice and the relationship with the physical self. They used two instruments: Physical Self-Concept Scale (Moreno and Cervelló, 2005) and ad-hoc questionnaire on the basis of practice, hours of training and ergogenic substance. 315 practitioners were evaluated weights (M = 26.95 years, SD = 7.33) and...
Questionnaire for assessing family variables related to drug use in university students

Ramón Morell-Gomis*; José A. García del Castillo**; Mónica Gázquez Pertusa** y Álvaro García del Castillo-López**.
*Departamento de Psicología de la Salud. Universidad Miguel Hernández
**Instituto de Investigación de Drogodependencias. Grupo de Investigación PREVENGO. Universidad Miguel Hernández

The family is a social organization where each member’s behaviors have effects on others. From the scientific reviews have been found family variables that affect behaviors as drug use, they are family communication, conflict, social support and living rules. The target of this research is focused on the construction of a test to measure these variables. The sample consists of 165 students from...
Longitudinal analysis of differences in cognitive abilities among high school alcohol users from Alicante’s region

José Luis Carballo, Gabriela García Sánchez, Valentina Jaúregui Andújar, María Marín Vila y Virtudes Pérez-Jover
Departamento de Psicología de la Salud. Universidad Miguel Hernández de Elche.

Empirical evidence has shown the relationship between alcohol abuse and the impairment of certain cognitive abilities. The aim of this paper was to analyze the influence of alcohol abuse on adolescents’ cognitive performance. Several questionnaires were used to assess adolescents’ addictive profile, as well as their performance on tasks involving cognitive abilities, such as attention, perception...
Beliefs associated with heavy consumption of alcohol among adolescents

Cortés, M.T.1; Espejo, B.1; Giménez, J.A.1; Luque, L.2; Gómez, R.2; Motos, P.2
1Departamento de Psicología Básica. Facultad de Psicología. Universitat de València.
2Facultad de Psicología. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba (Argentina).

Objectives and method In this study some different cognitive determinats that lead 136 school students (Media=16.6 años; d.t.=1.17 años) to perfom intensive alcohol consumption (>60 g males and >40 g. females, in 2 hours) are held taking as a model the Theory of Planned Behavior (Ajzen, 1985). Results In general, an overestimation of positive consequences arising from this consumption coupled...