Universität zu Köln

Sattler, Sebastian ORCID: 0000-0002-6491-0754 and Linden, Philipp ORCID: 0000-0001-5592-3492 (2021). Unhealthy parenting strategies: Situational (Dis-)Incentives, Machiavellian personality, and their interaction on misuse of ADHD medication for healthy children. Soc. Sci. Res., 97. SAN DIEGO: ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE. ISSN 1096-0317

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Abstract

Some parents engage in the potentially unhealthy and morally debateable parenting practice of giving prescription stimulant drugs to healthy children to boost their school and extracurricular performance. However, the parents' underlying reasoning remains unexamined. This web-based study (NRespondents = 1360) simultaneously investigates eight experimentally-varied situational (dis-)incentives (e.g., financial gains and drug properties) within a factorial vignette survey (NVignettes = 256), Machiavellianism as a measured socially relevant personality trait, and possible interaction effects. Results show that approximately 40% of the described situations (NEvaluations = 5440) provoked some willingness to medicate healthy children. Multilevel mixed-effect models revealed that this willingness was higher, for example, with increasing financial gains and weaker side effects. Machiavellians disclosed a higher willingness. They were more responsive to financial gains and threats (e.g., probable side effects). Respondents' sex, age, ethnicity, and experience with prescription drugs also had effects. Prevention measures might emphasize the dangers and limited potential of prescription drugs for healthy children.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Sattler, Sebastian UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0002-6491-0754 UNSPECIFIED Linden, Philipp UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0001-5592-3492 UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-582489
DOI:	10.1016/j.ssresearch.2021.102559
Journal or Publication Title:	Soc. Sci. Res.
Volume:	97
Date:	2021
Publisher:	ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
Place of Publication:	SAN DIEGO
ISSN:	1096-0317
Language:	English
Faculty:	Unspecified
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language RATIONAL CHOICE THEORY; COLLEGE-STUDENTS; DARK TRIAD; COGNITIVE ENHANCEMENT; EXPERIMENTAL VIGNETTE; NONMEDICAL USE; STIMULANT USE; DRUG-USE; NORMS; DETERMINANTS Multiple languages Sociology Multiple languages
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/58248