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Risk Factors (Personality (High correlations have been found between these…
Risk Factors
Personality
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Extraverted people: They seek new experiences and may be susceptible to boredom so they are more likely to experiment with drugs and then become addictited.
Antisocial personality disorder causes people to impulsive and so they are less able to control their behaviour and rush into taking drugs
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Genetic Vulnerability
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Adoption studies support the genetic explanation because they show that if a child is adopted from a parent with an addiction they are still more likely to develop an addiction
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Family Influences
social learning theory
We imitate our role models behaviour, we may imitate our parents behaviour because we believe they see this behaviour as desirable
Vicarious reinforcement means we see others getting pleasure from drugs etc so we are more likely to take them ourselves
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