The addictive personality is the behavior of the addict.

Abstract

Research on the relation between personality and the etiology of alcohol and drug abuse has revealed a single consistent finding: a correlation between antisocial behavior in childhood and adolescence and alcoholism in adulthood. It is antisocial behavior, however, and not antisocial personality, that most observers identify as a precursor of alcoholism. Unfortunately, the high rates of antisocial behavior in our society render it an inefficient predictor of alcohol and drug abuse. Research on the link between personality and the course of alcohol and drug abuse has suggested that substantial numbers of abusers meet Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders criteria for antisocial personality disorder and that depression also frequently accompanies alcohol and drug dependence. No personality factors and no other behaviors have reliably differentiated abusers from others: Antisocial behavior and depression are behaviors that are symptomatic, respectively, of a disregard for society's rules and of clinical dysphoria. Moreover, the depressed behavior of alcoholics appears largely to be consequent rather than antecedent to their alcoholism. This definition of personality expresses three common characteristics: internal, unique, and enduring.[ KJinger (1977) views personality as the branch of psychology that 183 This document is copyrighted by the American Psychological Association or one of its allied publishers.This article is intended solely for the personal use of the individual user and is not to be disseminated broadly.

Personality and the genetic risk for alcohol dependence.

“…Traits that are associated with genetic variation in AD risk might merely represent alternate manifestations or different developmental stages of the same underlying disorder. Although this is a reasonable explanation for the genetic association of AD with CD, and even of AD with the reversed EPQ-R Lie scale (which might be considered an indicator of mild antisocial tendencies), it cannot easily explain the genetic association of AD with TPQ Novelty Seeking, which is a purer measure of personality distinct from "the behavior of the addict" (Nathan, 1988). Another explanation is that there are one or more genes that have pleiotropic effects on a range of traits, including AD, CD, and the personality dimension of BU, possibly through their effect on common underlying psychobiological processes.…”

The Internet addiction components model and personality: Establishing construct validity via a nomological network

“…As the Internet addiction components model has recently been established , its theoretical understanding requires the development of a statistical model that is able to explain its associations with related constructs, such as an addictive personality (Nakken, 2013). Antisocial and depressive behaviours have been linked to an addictive personality (Nathan, 1988), suggesting that neuroticism and lack of agreeableness are predictors of Internet addiction. Other research suggests that although there are commonalities regarding an addictive personality across different addictions, there are also differences (Kagan, 1987), furthermore strengthening the need to assess the predictive power of personality characteristics on Internet addiction specifically.…”

Persoonlijkheidsstoornissen en verslaving

“…Hoewel deze bevindingen in brede kring worden geaccepteerd, wordt door sommigen gesteld dat de antisociale persoonlijkheidstrekken vaker gevolg dan oorzaak zijn van verslavingsproblemen (o.a. Vaillant, 1983aVaillant, , 1983b of dat de beschikbare studies niet zozeer de persoonlijkheid meten maar het gedrag (Nathan, 1988).…”