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- When alcohol or other drugs alter the brain, they exaggerate and distort a individual's basic personality. Common effects of addiction on personality are self-centeredness, irresponsibility, and blaming people, places, and things for their suffering.
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Jul 7, 2020 · To do this, we examined the associations between usage of seven types of drugs (tobacco, alcohol, sedatives, soft drugs, XTC, hallucinogens, and hard drugs) and the Big Five personality traits, life satisfaction, and self-esteem in a representative sample of the Dutch population.
- Lara Kroencke, Lara Kroencke, Niclas Kuper, Niclas Kuper, Wiebke Bleidorn, Jaap Denissen
- 2021
Dec 1, 2018 · In drug use disorders comorbid personality disorders seem to occur more often than in alcohol use disorder. A particularly frequent association has been found between substance use disorder and antisocial or borderline personality disorder.
- Patrick Köck, Marc Walter
- 2018
The mechanisms promoting addictive behaviors in narcissism and psychopathy might differ and potentially target different phases of the addiction cycle: on the one hand, initially, instrumental use, driven by self-stabilizing motives, and on the other hand, compulsive use, characterized by loss of control despite negative consequences, which circ...
Although persons who develop alcohol use disorder or other forms of substance misuse may show dependent traits, it remains unclear whether dependence leads to alcoholism or stems from downward movement in social status associated with problem drinking, largely as a result of unemployment, which likely renders people more dependent on others.
- Jeffrey S. Nevid, Alexander J. Gordon, Andrew S. Miele, Luke H. Keating
- 2020
Mental disorders can contribute to substance use and SUDs. Studies found that people with a mental disorder, such as anxiety, depression, or post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) , may use drugs or alcohol as a form of self-medication.
Jul 7, 2020 · Results indicated that individuals with low levels of conscientiousness, life satisfaction, and self-esteem, as well as high levels of neuroticism, used more drugs on average (between-person...
