Drugs, daydreaming, and personality: a study of college youth (1st)

This volume 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.

The editors chose to emphasise the more 'private' features of the personality, because these had often been ignored in earlier research, despite popular assumptions that there are close ties between fantasy, inwardness, 'spacey' qualities (all suggesting permanent changes in mental organisation), and substance use in youth.