The Network Constellation of Personality and Substance Use

Our recently published study entitled “The Network Constellation of Personality and Substance Use: Evolution from Early to Late Adolescence” (Afzali et al., 2020) used graph theory techniques to demonstrate the evolution of network constellation of personality and substance use from early to late adolescence. There is a well‐established link between substance use and four personality traits of anxiety–sensitivity, hopelessness, impulsivity, and sensation‐seeking. However, In this study we highlighted that macro/construct‐level models of personality may conceal micro/indicator‐level personality–outcome associations. Our study is praised in the European Journal of Personality editorial indicating “not only it provides a more complex evaluation of the relations between personality and outcomes but also provide more targeted item generation for future measures (e.g.,including more specific items measuring sensation-seeking personality indicators in substance use)”. The published work can be found here.