Characteristics and social representation of ecstasy in Europe - Irefrea

the others versions but with less items, 10 for each factor. These four factors, thatconstitute four subscales are (Carroll and Zuckerman, 1977):1. Thrill and Adventure Seeking (TAS): it expresses the desire of getting involved inactivities that imply danger or speed and that provide unusual sensations.2. Experience Seeking (ES): it implies the search of activity through unconventionalor non conformist life styles. It shows a need for different internal experiencesthat can be reached with trips, drugs, music, art and a not conventional style oflife. There is also some resistance to the authority.3. Disinhibition (DIS): it is a fluctuating factor, oscillatory, it includes items thatexpress hedonism, sexual promiscuity, etc.4. Boredom Susceptibility (BS) implies a displeasure for repeated experiences ofany class.The Social Deviation Scale is a scale of 10 items adapted from the FBI Uniform andCrime Report used for investigation on drug users by the Centre on Drug and AlcoholResearch of the University of Kentucky. This scale has not been validated in Europe,and has been scarcely used in investigation.• Part IV:The Social Representations Scale is a questionnaire that must be elaboratedspecifically for each study, which implies a preliminary research gathering all thoseconvictions, ideas, attitudes, etc…connected with this drug and that we find in thesocial context of the five European cities that participate in the investigation. This needof previous information to the elaboration of this questionnaire was covered during theexploratory phase. As soon as all this elements were collected, with the informationprovided by the individuals interviewed and the journalistic and professional articlesanalysis, material of prevention, etc., a twenty phrases list was elaborated. These twentyphrases form the definitive questionnaire which has to be answered selecting fourphrases blocks according to the following procedure:1. In the first block, you have to choose the sentences that seem to be closer to youridea about ecstasy.2. In the second, you have to choose among the sixteen sentences that remain, theones that have less to do with your idea about ecstasy.3. In the third block, of the 12 remaining sentences, you have to choose again theclosest to your idea about ecstasy.4. In the fourth block, of the 8 that remain, choose the furthest to your idea aboutecstasy.All this will serve to obtain two types of information:32