Personality and addiction

Question 1

What idea is this based on

Answer 1

Individual differnces

Question 2

What does an addictive personality do to a person

Answer 2

Makes them more likely to try an addictive substance, become addicted and find it hard to quit

Question 3

What did Hans Eysencks theory suggest personality can be measured on?

Answer 3

2 dimensions

Question 4

What are the six elements to the theory of personality

Answer 4

Unstable - stable (neuroticism)
Extroverted - introverted
Normality - psychoticism

Question 5

How do psychoticism and impulsivity link?

Answer 5

Those with high levels of psychoticism show low levels of impulse control - more likely to participate in maladaptive behaviours without considering the consequences

Question 6

neurotic people will use self medication as a way of doing what?

Answer 6

treating themselves as they have low self esteem

Question 7

In what way do neurotic individuals act

Answer 7

self defeating in order to escape awareness

Question 8

What did Gossop and Eysenck find and what year did they find it

Answer 8

Researched over 200 drug addicts and found that addicts had high P (psychotism) and N (neurotism) scores but lower E (Extroversion) and L (impulse control) scores than the control group.
Found this in 1980