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Addiction: Risk Factors Flashcards

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What is a risk factor?

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Anything internal or external that increases the likelihood of an individual starting to use durgs or engage in addictive behaviour

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What are the different types of risk factors?

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Genetic Vulnerability
Stress
Personality
Family Influences
Peers

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What is genetic vulnerability?

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The possibilty that we may inherit a predisposition/vulenrability that increases the risl of this disorder.
It can explain why some individuals become dependent and others don’t

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What are the two reasons genetic vulnerability can occur?

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D2 Receptor
Metabolism

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What is the D2 receptor?

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D2 receptor is responsible for communicating with Dopamine, the number of D2 receptors an individual has is determined by genetics

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What will happen if a person has fewer D2 receptors?

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Having fewer D2 receptors is associated with addiction

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What does having fewer D2 receptors lead to?

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Problems with experiencing pleasure from everyday activities e.g., chocolate.

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If a person has fewer D2 receptors what will they turn to?

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More addictive substances like nicotine to experience the same feeling of pleasure and compensate for this deficiency

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How does metabolism link to addiction?

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Some people are able to metabolise certain addcitive subsatnces a lot faster than others, making it easier for them to become addicted as they may need more to have the same effects

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How to explain a person’s metabolism?

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It is inherited through genes

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What is an example of metabolism research?

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Pianezza

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What did Pianezza find?

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Some people lack a fully functioning enzyme which metabolises nicotine, so less likely to smoke than those with fully functioning version.

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Correlational research for all

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P - Based on correlational research
E - Cause an effect can’t be established, research shown a link between risk factors such as (state risk factor) and addiction
E - But it doesn’t show which came first
L - Lacks internal validity as it doesn’t allow us to conclude these factors do make people more at risk of addiction

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Genetic vulnerability AO3 - Who researched genetic vulnerability?

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P - Kendler et al using data from National Swedish Adoption Study

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Genetic Vulnerability AO3 - What did Kendler look at?

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E - Adults who ahd been adopted as children from biological families in which at least one person had an addiction

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Genetic vulnerability AO3 - What did Kendler find?

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E - That the children later had a significantly greater risk of developing an addiction themselves, compared to adopeted individuals with no addicted parent in their bioloigical families

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Genetic Vulnerability AO3 - What is the link?

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L - Gives validity to genetic vulnerability as a risk factor in addiction, shows addiction vulnerability can be inherited through genes.

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What is stress?

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Where an individual experiences a state of arousal that occurs when they beleive they don’t have the ability to cope with the perceived threat

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If someone experiences stress what are they likely to do?

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Turn to addictives substances orr behaviours as a from of self-medication for stress

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With stress what has been linked to increased risk of developing an addiction?

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Periods of chronic, long lasting stress and traumatic life events in childhood

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Who researched stress?

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Anderson and Teicher

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What did Anderson and Teicher find?

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Early experiences of severe stress have damaging effects on a young brain in a sensitive period of development, can create a vulnerability to later stress.

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What can futher stressful experiences lead to?

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Triggering the vulnerability and make it more likely for a person to self-medicate

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What is the stress AO3?

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Correlational stress

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What has psychologists proposed about behaviours?

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A correlation between certain traits and addcition

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What is suggested about personailty?

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Anti-social personailty disorder leads to high vulnerability to addiction, can include neurotic and psychotic personality traits

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What does high levels of neuroticism lead to?

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High levels of anxiety
Irritability
Low self-efficacy

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What does high levels of psychotism lead to?

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Agressive
Impulsive
Sometimes emotionally detached
Risks of tasking and sensation seeking behaviour

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Personality AO3 - Who researched it?

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Eynsenck and Gossop

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Personality AO3 - What did they do?

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Assessed the personality of a sample of 221 drug addicts and 310 non-addicted ppts.

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Personality AO3 - What did they use?

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Eysneck’s Proabbility Questionnaire

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Personality AO3 - What did they find?

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Evidence of high psychotism and neuroticism scores in addicted ppts compared to non-addicted ppts

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Personality AO3 - Whta is the link?

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This supports the role of neuroticism and psychoticism personality traits as a risk factor in addictive behaviour giving validity to this risk factor

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What are family influences?

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Family members can have an effect on an individual’s thoughts, feeling and behaviours over the course of their development

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What is one family influence?

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Perceived parental aaproval

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What is perceived parental approval?

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If adolescents believe their parents show positive attitudes towards a particular addictive substance/behaviour, they will be more vulnerable to developing addiction

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What did Livingstone find?

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Final year high school students who were allowed by their parents to drink alcohol at home were significantly more likely to drink excessively at college the following year

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What is another family influence?

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Parents having little interest in monitoring their behaviour

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How does the social learning theory link to family influences?

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Individual observes family mmebr engaging in addcitive behaviour, imitiate this behaviour as they identify with them and want to be like them

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Family influences AO3 - Who researched it?

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Madras et al

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Family influences AO3 - What did Madras do?

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Studied familis with adolescents where parents use cannabis

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Family infleucnes - What did Madras find?

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A strong positive correlation between the parenst use of cannabis and the adolescents use of cannabis, nicotine, alcohol and opioids

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Family influences AO3 - What dies the findings show?

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Adolescents perceived that the parents were accepting drug use so went on to do it themselves

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Family influences AO3 - What is the link?

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Supports fmaily influences as a risk factor for addcition

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How can peers influence an individual’s development?

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As they spend more time with them and less with their family

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What do some psychologists argue peers act as?

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A gateway to addictive behaviour

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What did O’Connell et all suggest?

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Adolescents are at risk of devloping alcohol addiction due to the influence of their peers because of three major elements

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What are the three major elements suggestde by O’Connell?

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Attitudes and norms to drinking alcohol
Opportunities to drinking alcohol
Individual’s perception

49
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Attitudes and norms to drinking alcohol

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Risk of drinking alcohol can be influenceed by associating with groups of peers who drink alcohol (NSI and ISI)

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Opportunities to drink alcohol

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Experienced peers provide more oppportunities for the risk of drinking alcohol

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Individuals perception

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Individual may overestimate how much their peers drink and drink more to keep up with them

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