aqa psychology vulnerability to addiction key studies
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- Created on: 06-11-13 19:07
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- vulnerability to addiction
- stress
- Driessen et al found that 30% of drug addicts/ 15% of alcoholics suffered from PTSD
- it has been found that 40% of army enlisted men used heroin at least once
- only some developed addictions
- personality
- Teeson et al found that people addicted to drugs have higher than average scores on neuroticism and psychoticism
- parke et al found that competitiveness had a strong positive predicted value for pathological gambling
- Park et al also found deferment gratification had a relatively strong negative predictive value
- sensation seeking was shown not be a significant predictor of pathological gambling
- peers
- Sussman and Ames found that friend and peer use of drugs is a strong predictor of drug use among teenages
- Thombs et al found a positive relationship between alcohol consumption and close friends alcohol consumption in 2213 high school students
- Bauman et al found that 80% of adolescents aged 12-14 whose parents did not smoke had never tried to smoke them selves
- Murray et al found that families who were strongly against smoking, the children were 7 times less likely to smoke
- age
- Sharm found that nicotine had a greater activating effect on the neural structure of adolescents than adults
- fidler et al found that adolescents who had smoked just one cigarette by the age of 11 were twice as likely to be regular smokers by the age of 14
- the Health canada youth smoking survey found that early onset smokers (12-15) years old were more likely to drink alcohol
- Helfer found that 17% of swiss women over the age of 75 used painkillers or sleeping pills every day 6% also used tranquillisers
- 46% of men over the age of 75% also drank alcohol every day compared to just 6% of 25-34 year olds
- stress
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