The Multiple, Distinct Ways that Personality Contributes to Alcohol Use Disorders.

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Authors: Littlefield, Andrew K; Sher, Kenneth J
Year: 2010
Journal: Social and personality psychology compass
PMID: 21170162
DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-9004.2010.00296.x
PMCID: PMC3002230

#	Section	Preview
0	Deviance Proneness	Rather than suggesting that problematic alcohol use is the result of psychological or…
1	Deviance Proneness	(a construct related to impulsivity), drug dependence, conduct disorder, and antisocial behavior…
2	Deviance Proneness	There are a number of alternative, though not incompatible, theories regarding the role of…
3	Genetic Diathesis	Though the idea that the genetic diathesis, or risk, for AUDs might be mediated by personality was…
4	Genetic Diathesis	and AUDs may be identified (see Integrating Developmental Models of Alcohol, Personality, and…
5	Pharmacological Vulnerability	Broadly, the pharmacological vulnerability model (Sher, 1991) proposes that individuals have…
6	Pharmacological Vulnerability	Some evidence suggests individual differences in personality moderate individual responses to…
7	Pharmacological Vulnerability	Further, diagnosis of AUDs (especially alcohol abuse) is determined, in part, by the consequences…
8	Pharmacological Vulnerability	Despite these findings, several shortcomings regarding personality as a moderator of the…
9	Personality and Environmental Selection	As noted by Park, Sher, Krull, and Wood (2009), individuals tend to self-select into environments…
10	Personality and Environmental Selection	For example, in a prospective study of over 3,000 undergraduates, Park et al. (2009) found that…
11	Affect Regulation	Individuals appear to be motivated to use substances for various reasons, including the regulation…
12	Affect Regulation	Since personality traits are thought to influence the motivation of behavior in general, they are…
13	Affect Regulation	Further, coping and enhancement motives exhibit robust relationships with alcohol involvement and…
14	Affect Regulation	Despite these findings, several issues concerning the relation between personality and motives…
15	Affect Regulation	correlations with enhancement (r=.19) and coping (r=.21) motives in the Cooper et al. (2000) study.…
16	Affect Regulation	Notably, other models suggest that personality traits may influence the use of alcohol to regulate…
17	Developmental Models of Personality-Alcohol Relation	The distinction between prealcoholic personality traits and clinical personality traits proposed by…
18	Developmental Models of Personality-Alcohol Relation	However, it is only recently that individual differences in developmental changes in personality and…
19	Developmental Models of Personality-Alcohol Relation	The normative changes in these traits tend towards configurations of personality that reflect…

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