Table 4.
Ranking of motives for smoking more, drinking more, and using more cannabis
| Reason for more consuming of … | Nicotine |
Alcohol |
Cannabis |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N | % | rank | N | % | rank | N | % | rank | |
| Has nothing to do with lockdown | 16 | 6.1 | 12 | 26 | 2.4 | 13 | 2 | 2.6 | 12 |
| Fear of contamination | 10 | 3.8 | 14 | 35 | 3.2 | 12 | 2 | 2.6 | 12 |
| Reward after a hard-working day | 98 | 37.1 | 3 | 513 | 46.6 | 2 | 33 | 43.4 | 3 |
| Increased tension (family, work, etc.) | 59 | 22.3 | 7 | 270 | 24.5 | 6 | 17 | 22.4 | 8 |
| Decreased tension (traffic, more sleep time, etc.) | 27 | 10.2 | 11 | 123 | 11.2 | 11 | 16 | 21.1 | 9 |
| Stress from negative reporting | 50 | 18.9 | 8 | 70 | 15.4 | 8 | 19 | 25.0 | 7 |
| Loneliness | 75 | 28.4 | 5 | 168 | 15.2 | 9 | 25 | 32.9 | 5 |
| Lack of social contacts | 108 | 40.9 | 2 | 383 | 34.8 | 3 | 37 | 48.7 | 2 |
| Lack of activities or sports | 46 | 17.4 | 9 | 194 | 17.6 | 7 | 22 | 28.9 | 6 |
| More tension due to permanent presence of housemates | 38 | 14.4 | 10 | 157 | 14.2 | 10 | 9 | 11.8 | 10 |
| Boredom | 116 | 43.9 | 1 | 298 | 27.0 | 5 | 41 | 53.9 | 1 |
| Conviviality | 75 | 28.4 | 5 | 572 | 51.9 | 1 | 25 | 32.9 | 5 |
| Increased social control | 2 | 0.8 | 15 | 9 | 0.8 | 15 | 2 | 2.6 | 12 |
| Loss of daily structure | 98 | 37.1 | 3 | 332 | 30.1 | 4 | 33 | 43.4 | 3 |
| Seeing smoking and drinking in movies and series | 15 | 5.7 | 13 | 25 | 2.3 | 14 | 5 | 6.6 | 11 |
| Total N: 264 (7.3%) | Total N: 1,102 (30.3%) | Total N: 76 (2.1%) | |||||||
Descriptive analysis of the motives for smoking more, drinking more, and using more cannabis. N represents the number of respondents using more. % represents the relative frequency of respondents using more indicating that motive. Rank defines the order of how often the motive was reported, ranging from 1 (highly reported motive) to 15 (lowest reported motive). If an equal number of respondents reported the motive, motives were given the same rank.