Adolescence is the age of discordance: abandonment ideas and feelings, perpetual becoming, eternal change, everything presupposes contradiction. It speeds disappointments. Pessimism alternates with enthusiasm for a new idea or noble cause, hence affective ambivalence. This paper aims to identify some behavioural aspects personality traits adolescents two categories, from two-parent families tho...

Gives a brief history of the Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, noting its current premier status among addictions journals. The editor discusses the types of manuscripts that the journal publishes, covering a wide range of topics and substantive areas. The plan is to keep the journal as an outlet for publication of manuscripts concerning all of the addictive behaviors. (PsycINFO Database Recor...

The phenomenology of chronic anorexia nervosa is compared with that of addictive states. A model is proposed in which brain opioids mediate the elation, neuroendocrine changes, and dov\/n-regulation of metabolism that occur in adaptation to dieting. The physiology of opioids is reviewed, and clinical and animal data are marshalled to support an auto-addictive model. Opiate blockade together wit...

G. Alan Marlatt, Ph.D. is Professor of Psychology and director of the Addictive Behaviors Research Center where he conducts training and research on the prevention and treatment of alcohol and other addictive behavior problems in college students and Native American Youth as well as on the effects of Vipassana meditation on relapse and general well-being. He received his Ph.D. in psychology fro...

Addictive drugs induce a dopamine signal that contributes to the initiation of addiction, and the dopamine signal influences drug-associated memories that perpetuate drug use. The addiction process shares many commonalities with the synaptic plasticity mechanisms normally attributed to learning and memory. Environmental stimuli repeatedly linked to addictive drugs become learned associations, a...

The Internet Process Addiction Test (IPAT) was created to screen for potential addictive behaviors that could be facilitated by the internet. The IPAT was created with the mindset that the term "Internet addiction" is structurally problematic, as the Internet is simply the medium that one uses to access various addictive processes. The role of the internet in facilitating addictions, however, c...

We modify the model of rational addiction of G. Becker and K. Murphy 1988] by considering diminishing time preference rates. The model provides explanation for a number of stylized facts: The model explains that addictive good consumption is non-monotone over time (the addiction career) without breaking concavity of the preferences, that not all individuals get addicted, that the eeect of price...

The common etiology of substance and behavioural addictions is one that suggests faulty volition caused by a cognitive impairment. A cognitive impairment that minimizes the recall of the negative effects of the addictive behaviour is viewed as necessary and causal to all addictions. The proposed definition for addiction clarifies the confusion associated with addictive disorders, explains the m...

Most Canadians believe that certain drugs cause catastrophic addictions in people who use them. This conventional belief is reflected in such familiar phrases as "crack cocaine is instantly addictive" or "heroin is so good, don't even try it once". It is also implied in the professional literature which routinely describes certain drugs as "addictive", "dependency producing", or "habit forming"...

Compulsive buying is a form of addictive consumption where consumers purchase goods that they either don’t need or can’t afford. This paper reviews the literature on this problem behavior and summarizes the findings in the following three areas: conceptual definition, reasons “why” consumers engage in this type of addictive consumption, predictors of compulsive shoppers and the correlation with...