Personality

Question 1

Sinha

Answer 1

stress can initiate addiction and can cause relapse. use addiction to ‘treat’ stress. neuroticism more vulnerable to stress, more vulnerable to addiction

Question 2

Baumeister

Answer 2

low self esteem leads to acting in self defeating manner to escape self awareness. may use addictive behaviour to do this

Question 3

Gossop and Eysenck

Answer 3

200 drug addicts. found evidence of high and P scores.

Question 4

De-Witt

Answer 4

review of studies that found that impulsiveness was cause and effect of drug abuse

Question 5

Dalley (2007)

Answer 5

impulsive rats increased cocaine intake more than low impulsive rats

Question 6

Stevens (2014)

Answer 6

impuslive people less successful in treatment programmes and more likely to drop out

Question 7

Terracino

Answer 7

smokers score lower on conscientiousness and higher on neuroticism than never smokers. Cocaine and heroin - high neuroticism, very low conscientiousness.

Question 8

Dong et al

Answer 8

gave Chinese students EPQ. 2 years later internet addiction assessed, higher N+P scores linked to addiction. suggests causal relationship

Question 9

Bucknoltz

Answer 9

those with higher impulisivity had a greater dopamine release in response to amphetamines. personality not sufficient explanation on its own. impulsive people more likely to get addicted due to dopamine release.

Question 10

Kerr (1996)

Answer 10

argues addictive personality is a myth, too many traits that are common in most people anyway. addiction too complex to reduce it down to a set of personality traits.