Study addiction and ‘dark’ personality traits: a cross-sectional survey study among emerging adults

Kırcaburun, Kağan; Sural, Irfan; March, Evita; Balta, Sabah; Emirtekin, Emrah; Griffiths, Mark D.

doi:10.1080/10550887.2021.1872469

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“…Similarly, different types have been proposed for work addiction, including compulsive perfectionistic/controlling and impulsive/hyperactive [63][64][65], and study addiction, including socially conforming (mostly women) and narcissistic/grandiose (mostly men) [1,66]. Importantly, study addiction was consistently positively related to conscientiousness and deteriorated psychosocial functioning in the previous studies in different countries, among undergraduate and high school students, and among women and men [41,42,67,68]. These findings suggest that conscientiousness may, in some cases, not be a protective factor against addiction and ill-health [69], particularly by affecting work-related behaviors [70].…”

Section: Personality and Addictionmentioning

confidence: 96%

Subpopulations of Addictive Behaviors in Different Sample Types and Their Relationships with Gender, Personality, and Well-Being: Latent Profile vs. Latent Class Analysis

Atroszko

Charzyńska

2021

IJERPH

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Background: Relatively strong theoretical assumptions and previous studies concerning co-occurring addictive behaviors suggest a subpopulation representing general proclivity to behavioral addictions (BAs), and there are gender-specific subpopulations. This study aimed to compare latent profile analysis (LPA) and latent class analysis (LCA) as the methods of investigating different clusters of BAs in the general student population and among students positively screened for at least one BA. Participants and procedure: Analyses of six BAs (study, shopping, gaming, Facebook, pornography, and food) and their potential antecedents (personality) and consequences (well-being) were conducted on a full sample of Polish undergraduate students (N = 1182) and a subsample (n = 327) of students including individuals fulfilling cutoff for at least one BA. Results: LPA on the subsample mostly replicated the previous four profiles found in the full sample. However, LCA on a full sample did not replicate previous findings using LPA and showed only two classes: those with relatively high probabilities on all BAs and low probabilities. LCA on the subsample conflated profiles identified with LPA and classes found with LCA in the full sample. Conclusions: LCA on dichotomized scores (screened positively vs. negatively) were less effective in identifying clear patterns of interrelationships between BAs based on relatively strong theoretical assumptions and found in previous research. BAs can be investigated on the whole spectrum of behavior, and person-centered analyses might be more useful when they are based on continuous scores. This paper provides more detailed analyses of the four basic clusters of BAs, prevalence, and co-occurrence of particular BAs within and between them, their gender and personality risk factors, relationships to well-being, and their interrelationships as emerging from the results of this and previous studies.

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Section: Personality and Addictionmentioning

confidence: 96%

Subpopulations of Addictive Behaviors in Different Sample Types and Their Relationships with Gender, Personality, and Well-Being: Latent Profile vs. Latent Class Analysis

Atroszko

Charzyńska

2021

IJERPH

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“…These studies should determine whether general anxiety or rather specific facets of social and performance anxiety account for the observed effects and explain overstudying among young musicians the regulatory mechanisms of study addiction. Also, the role of other personality traits previously found to be associated with study addiction among general populations of students, such as competitiveness , could be investigated among young musicians to determine whether these constitute universal risk factors similarly to conscientiousness or neuroticism, and to what extent such traits as narcissism Charzyńska et al, 2021;Kircaburun et al, 2021) are genderspecific risk factors in this group.…”

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Problematic overstudying, Big Five personality, and music performance anxiety: associations with well-being and GPA

Luszuk,

Stelnicki,

Lawendowski

et al. 2024

Health Psychology Report

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BackgroundProblematic overstudying is a compulsive and pathological overinvolvement in studying leading to harm and considerable functional impairments. It is conceptualized as “study addiction,” a precursor to work addiction. It has been investigated within the addictive behaviours framework in general populations of students for over a decade. A previous study analysed the problem among young musicians as a particularly vulnerable group. It found some important differences in potential personality risk factors among music academy students compared to general populations of students and showed an im-portant role of social anxiety. The current study aimed to validate these findings in a separate larger sample and extend them by investigating the role of music performance anxiety (MPA).Participants and procedureThe study was conducted among 213 students of music academies. Valid and reliable measures of study addiction, MPA, Big Five personality and well-being were used.ResultsThe results showed that MPA played a similar role as social anxiety in terms of being a predictor, mediator, and moderator of the main replicated effects supporting the hypothesised mechanisms regulating study addiction. However, extraversion was not associated with study addiction in multiple hierarchical regression analysis, but conscientiousness and neuroticism were. Study addiction was associated with indicators of decreased well-being, above and beyond MPA, and personality.ConclusionsThese results show that MPA plays an analogous role to social anxiety and that the role of Big Five personality in study addiction among young musicians requires further investigation due to inconsistent findings.

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“…In such cases, narcissism and other dark personality traits may be more important factors (P.A. Atroszko, Sawicki, & Kamble, 2021; Charzyńska et al, 2021; Kircaburun et al, 2021).…”

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Identifying individual vulnerabilities and problematic behaviors hindering musicians’ development: Obsessive–compulsive personality disorder versus study addiction

Atroszko,

Buźniak,

Woropay-Hordziejewicz

et al. 2023

Musicae Scientiae

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Individual vulnerabilities, such as particular personality characteristics, may be important risk factors that can hinder the development of young musicians and affect their professional careers. This study aimed to examine the relationship between obsessive–compulsive personality disorder (OCPD) and rigid perfectionism, study addiction, and well-being among music students. It was hypothesized that OCPD is a strong risk factor for addictive studying; compulsive learning, however, is an addictive disorder with its own etiology, symptomatology, epidemiology, and course. A total of 255 students from various music academies in Poland participated in the study. It used the Bergen Study Addiction Scale, assessing seven core addiction symptoms related to studying; Five-Factor Obsessive Compulsive Inventory; Perceived Stress Scale; Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale; Three-Item Loneliness Scale; and a single-item measure of learning engagement. Both study addiction and OCPD showed positive relationships with stress, anxiety, depression, and loneliness. Multiple hierarchical regression analyses showed that study addiction was related to well-being above and beyond OCPD and was more strongly associated with compromised functioning. Furthermore, mediation analyses indicated that study addiction is a full mediator between OCPD and stress, as well as loneliness, and a partial mediator for anxiety and depression. Moderation analyses revealed that OCPD was related to well-being only for those participants who scored low for study addiction. There was no significant relationship between OCPD and well-being for participants who scored high for study addiction. These results strongly indicate that OCPD is an important risk factor for study addiction although these are different disorders. Like students with high levels of OCPD, students with high levels of study addiction but low levels of OCPD experience reduced well-being. The polythetic cut-off score showed that 24.6% of young musicians could be addicted to studying. Due to the high prevalence of this disorder, further systematic studies among young musicians are highly warranted to prevent and provide better help with the problem.

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Study addiction and ‘dark’ personality traits: a cross-sectional survey study among emerging adults

Cited by 20 publications

References 52 publications

Subpopulations of Addictive Behaviors in Different Sample Types and Their Relationships with Gender, Personality, and Well-Being: Latent Profile vs. Latent Class Analysis

Subpopulations of Addictive Behaviors in Different Sample Types and Their Relationships with Gender, Personality, and Well-Being: Latent Profile vs. Latent Class Analysis

Problematic overstudying, Big Five personality, and music performance anxiety: associations with well-being and GPA

Identifying individual vulnerabilities and problematic behaviors hindering musicians’ development: Obsessive–compulsive personality disorder versus study addiction

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