Psychology of Addiction
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Psychology of Addiction
Critical evaluation of the journal article, 'Do personality characteristics and risk taking mediate the relationship between paternal substance dependence and adolescent substance use?'.
Introduction-
In article, 'Do personality characteristics and risk taking mediate the relationship between paternal substance dependence and adolescent substance use?' (Addictive Behaviors 32, 2007:1852–1862), Christine McCauley Ohannessian & Victor M. Hesselbrock investigate the possible mediation of adolescent temperament and personality characteristics , and paternal substance dependence and adolescent offspring substance use.
The main hypothesis of the study is that the risk taking behaviour adolescence further mediates the relationship between parental substance dependence and offspring substance use. It also researches parental substance dependence in predicting offspring substance use indirectly via temperament and personality characteristics and subsequent risk taking. The findings show significant mediation of risk taking behaviour to substance use in adolescence and the subsequence development of substance abuse or problems relating to paternal substance dependence (e.g. Offspring of alcoholic parents are more likely to engage in early and heavy substance use leading to the development of substance abuse and drug problems. Chassin, Flora & King, 2004).
The article was published in the journal of 'Addictive Behaviors', 32 (2007) so holds high scientific merit. The authors, Christine McCauley Ohannessian, an associate university professor who's research is specifically interested in adolescent problem behaviours (e.g. depression, substance abuse) and resiliency, also addressing why some adolescents from maladaptive environments turn out to be adjusted/unadjusted, and Dr. Victor M. Hesselbrock who holds the Physicians' Health Services endowed chair in Addiction Studies and is Principal Investigator of the Department's Alcohol...
Critical evaluation of the journal article, 'Do personality characteristics and risk taking mediate the relationship between paternal substance dependence and adolescent substance use?'.
Introduction-
In article, 'Do personality characteristics and risk taking mediate the relationship between paternal substance dependence and adolescent substance use?' (Addictive Behaviors 32, 2007:1852–1862), Christine McCauley Ohannessian & Victor M. Hesselbrock investigate the possible mediation of adolescent temperament and personality characteristics , and paternal substance dependence and adolescent offspring substance use.
The main hypothesis of the study is that the risk taking behaviour adolescence further mediates the relationship between parental substance dependence and offspring substance use. It also researches parental substance dependence in predicting offspring substance use indirectly via temperament and personality characteristics and subsequent risk taking. The findings show significant mediation of risk taking behaviour to substance use in adolescence and the subsequence development of substance abuse or problems relating to paternal substance dependence (e.g. Offspring of alcoholic parents are more likely to engage in early and heavy substance use leading to the development of substance abuse and drug problems. Chassin, Flora & King, 2004).
The article was published in the journal of 'Addictive Behaviors', 32 (2007) so holds high scientific merit. The authors, Christine McCauley Ohannessian, an associate university professor who's research is specifically interested in adolescent problem behaviours (e.g. depression, substance abuse) and resiliency, also addressing why some adolescents from maladaptive environments turn out to be adjusted/unadjusted, and Dr. Victor M. Hesselbrock who holds the Physicians' Health Services endowed chair in Addiction Studies and is Principal Investigator of the Department's Alcohol...