The document discusses the relationship between personality and addiction. It explores whether personality causes addiction or vice versa, and examines factors like risk factors, personality traits, and stages of addiction. While some personality traits like impulsivity and risk-taking are correlated with addiction, there is no definitive "addictive personality." Rather, a predisposition to addiction involves a complex interplay of biological, psychological, and environmental influences.

1. Adrianne Hanusek

2.  What is addiction? What is personality?
 Does personality cause addiction or does addiction cause
personality?
 Stages of addiction
 Risk Factors and Personality Traits
 Addictive Personality – A myth?

3.  Basically, addiction is an attempt to control and fulfill a desire for
happiness
 An illness that undergoes continuous development from a
beginning to end
 An emotional relationship through which addicts try to meet their
needs for intimacy
 Pathological love and trust relationship

4.  Alcohol, Tobacco, Illicit Drugs
 Food
 Gambling
 Sex
 Exercising
 Internet/video Gaming?
 Work

5.  Loss of loved one
 Loss of status
 Loss of ideals or dreams
 Loss of friendships
 Facing new social challenges or social
isolation
 Family problems – childhood and adult

6.  Drug Use/Experimentation
 Misuse of Drugs/Abuse of Drugs
 Drug Addiction and Dependency

7. • The combination of
characteristics or
qualities that form
an individuals
distinctive character
• Big Five Personality
Traits

8.  Addictive personality gets created from the
illness of addiction and represents a change
resulting from the addictive process that takes
place within a person. This personality does
not exist prior to the illness of addiction, nor
does it represent a predisposition to addiction;
rather, it emerges from the addictive process –
Craig Nakken

9.  A particular set of personality traits that make
an individual predisposed to addiction
 Big Five Personality Traits
 What influences personality traits
 Biological
 Environmental

10.  Personality
 Impulsivity
 risk taking
 stress responsivity
 extraversion
 Psychiatric Disorders
 Depression
 Anxiety
 antisocial personality
disorder
 Attention
deficit/hyperactivity
disorder

12. • evidence shows some correlation between
personality traits and addiction, but not strong
enough to be definitive – it varies
 Predisposition to addiction is more accurately
a combination of biological, psychological and
environmental factors
 Debatable - there are many theories