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- Title
Premorbid Personality Traits as Risk Factors for Behavioral Addictions: A Systematic Review of a Vulnerability Hypothesis.
- Authors
Smirni, Daniela; Smirni, Pietro; Lavanco, Gioacchino; Caci, Barbara
- Abstract
The debate on personality structure and behavioral addictions is an outstanding issue. According to some authors, behavioral addictions could arise from a premorbid personality, while for others, it could result from a pathological use of technological tools. The current study aims to investigate whether, in the latest literature, personality traits have been identified as predictors of behavioral addictions. A literature search was conducted under the PRISMA methodology, considering the most relevant studies of the five-factor model from the past 10 years. Overall, most studies on addiction, personality traits, and personality genetics proved that behavioral addiction may be an epiphenomenon of a pre-existing personality structure, and that it more easily occurs in vulnerable subjects with emotional instability, negative affects, and unsatisfactory relationships with themselves, others, and events. Such neurotic personality structure was common to any addictive behavior, and was the main risk factor for both substance and behavioral addictions. Therefore, in clinical and educational contexts, it becomes crucial to primarily focus on the vulnerability factors, at-risk personality traits, and protective and moderating traits such as extroversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, and openness to experience; meanwhile, treatment of behavioral addictions is frequently focused on overt pathological behaviors.
- Subjects
COMPULSIVE behavior -- Risk factors; PERSONALITY; AFFECT (Psychology); PSYCHOLOGICAL vulnerability; SYSTEMATIC reviews; RISK assessment; AFFECTIVE disorders; INTERPERSONAL relations; MEDLINE; PSYCHOLOGICAL adaptation; COMPULSIVE behavior
- Publication
Children, 2023, Vol 10, Issue 3, p467
- ISSN
2227-9067
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/children10030467