PERSONALITY FEATURES OF CONVICTS WITH ADDICTIVE BEHAVIOR

The Myth of ‘Addictive Personality’

In the 30 years that I have been carrying out research into addiction, the question that I have been asked the most – particularly by those who work in the print and broadcast media – is whether there is such a thing as an ‘addictive personality’? Psychologists such as Sadava [1] have gone as far to say that ‘addictive personality’ is theoretically necessary, logically defensible, and empirical...

Personality and Intelligence of Convicts in West Virginia

Addictive Personality and Problematic Mobile Phone Use

Mobile phone use is banned or regulated in some circumstances. Despite recognized safety concerns and legal regulations, some people do not refrain from using mobile phones. Such problematic mobile phone use can be considered to be an addiction-like behavior. To find the potential predictors, we examined the correlation between problematic mobile phone use and personality traits reported in add...

Theories of Motivation and Addictive Behavior

A word after a word after a word is power. —Margaret atwood, " Spelling " For a detective, the easiest crimes to solve are those with an apparent motive: He wanted her money, and so he killed her for it. The crime makes sense. Crimes with no apparent motive are more difficult, such as when a person is attacked by someone unknown to him or her. But perhaps there are clues—a hair follicle, a scra...

Drug-evoked synaptic plasticity causing addictive behavior.

Introduction The clinical manifestations of drug addiction are the subject of medical literature and fiction alike. In Novel with Cocaine, first published almost 80 years ago under a pseudonym and only recently rediscovered, Mark Levi provides a disturbing account of a young Russian man becoming addicted to cocaine. Vadim, the novel’s antihero reflects: “Before I came in contact with cocaine I ...