Raynol & Chabrol - Review

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Writing Activity #3

Shateria Hughey

Lynn University

Intro to the Study of Psychology

November 15, 2021

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The study of young adults has expressed a significant link between the use of cannabis

and schizotypal behavioral traits. The relevance of this association is emphasized by the

realization that schizotypal distinctions and cannabis consumption tend to be risk factors for

schizophrenia development in young individuals. However, researchers have shown conflicting

results on the same association; in one provision, they claim that the emergence of schizotypal

traits comes before the relevance of cannabis use. In the other provision, they claim that cannabis

use precedes the development of schizotypal traits. Researchers have realized that cannabis

consumption attracts the concept of borderline and schizotypal traits (Raynal et al., 2016).

Furthermore, depressive symptoms are significantly associated with borderline traits, cannabis

use, and schizotypal traits. Also, the influence of gender in this perspective has been presumed to

be significant as cannabis use implications to mental well-being is concerned.

Based on the study results, a significant association between borderline and schizotypal

traits implies that borderline traits could influence the association between cannabis consumption

and schizotypal qualities. Therefore, it expresses the need to focus on borderline traits to evaluate

the association between cannabis use and schizotypal traits. It is also implicated that cannabis

use is less influenced by schizotypal traits (Raynal et al., 2016). Also, the study results show that

only schizotypal traits are uniquely and significantly connected to problematic symptoms of

cannabis use. This critically tends to indicate that schizotypal qualities are not an influential

initiating factor but may tend to be a significant factor towards enhancement of problematic

cannabis use, often through self-medication.

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Reference

Raynal, P., & Chabrol, H. (2016). Association between schizotypal and borderline personality

disorder traits, and cannabis use in young adults. Addictive behaviors, 60, 144-147.