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Critical Review Of Sensation Rethinking

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This critical review of Puente et. al (2008): Sensation seeking, attitudes toward drug use, and actual use among adolescents: testing a model for alcohol and ecstacy use aims to highlight two immediate issues: model identification and model interpretation.
1) Model identification
Based upon previous research, Puente et. al (2008) put forward two main hypotheses, which they investigate using SEM:
- H1: Positive attitudes toward consumption mediate the effects of sensation seeking on drug use.
- H2: Sensation seeking moderates the relationship between attitudes toward consumption and frequency of use of alcohol and ecstasy.
While these hypotheses seem reasonable, the authors encounter problems regarding the model specification. First, each
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