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Addictive personality factors.

D M Kagan1

  • 1Department of Teacher Education, California State University, San Bernardino 92407-2397.

The Journal of Psychology
|November 1, 1987
PubMed
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This study compared alcoholics, gamblers, smokers, joggers, and controls using the MacAndrew Alcoholism Scale. Alcoholics showed the highest pathology, while gamblers and smokers were distinct social addicts, and jogging related inversely to addiction.

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Area of Science:

  • Psychology
  • Addiction Studies
  • Behavioral Science

Background:

  • The MacAndrew Alcoholism Scale assesses personality traits associated with alcoholism.
  • Understanding addictive behaviors requires comparing different pathological groups.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To compare MacAndrew Alcoholism Scale scores across alcoholics, compulsive gamblers, smokers, chronic joggers, and control groups.
  • To identify which MacAndrew factors are most sensitive to additive psychopathology.

Main Methods:

  • Administered the MacAndrew Alcoholism Scale to five distinct subject groups: alcoholics, compulsive gamblers, smokers, chronic joggers, and controls.
  • Analyzed and compared mean scores on six subfactors of the scale across the groups.

Main Results:

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  • Alcoholics scored highest on Cognitive Impairment, Social Maladjustment, and Risk Taking subfactors, indicating greater pathology.
  • Compulsive gamblers and smokers presented as distinct, more socially oriented addicts compared to alcoholics.
  • Jogging frequency showed a negative correlation with addiction measures but a positive correlation with compulsiveness measures.

Conclusions:

  • The MacAndrew Alcoholism Scale's subfactors vary in their sensitivity to additive psychopathology.
  • Distinct patterns of personality traits exist across different addictive behaviors.
  • Compulsiveness may play a role in behaviors like excessive jogging, separate from traditional addiction metrics.